On 19-Nov-99 at 14:49:15 Larry Mintz wrote:
>> I've just rebuilt my PC from RH5.2 to 6.1 - a 'custom' installation; no
>> problems. I installed the pdksh rpm since I prefer to use the Korn shell
>> (used it a lot on the Sun's, so I still use it under linux). However, the
>> .profile file in my home directory is not being seen/read. The shell,
>> /bin/ksh, is in the /etc/shells file. Anyone know what I am missing here?
>> As far as I knew all I had to do was create the .profile file, ensure
>> /etc/shells is okay and that's it. Under RH5.2 I don't remember having to
>> do anything different, and I have checked all the files I could think
>> of (I still have the old system on a seperate disk partition).
>>
> Are you in root or user mode ? If you are using Gnome and in user
> mode change the shell and it should work.
>
User mode using KDE. Agreed it 'should' work, there's little to it but it
just doesn't seem to want to work for some reason. Good point though I'll
try running the system at init 2 to see if there's any difference.
John.
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