Well, a sort of summary. Many thanks to those who replied. I found running
the system at run level 2 or 3 had no problems with ksh. So the problem was
with logging in when running X window (KDE) by default. As far as I could
determine with RH5.2 the file /etc/X11/kdm/Xsession took care of running the
'.profile' file if it existed in the users home directory. Under RH6.1 both
gnome and KDE run /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession. This file has no such check of the
.profile file. I have included it as a simple if statement and it all now
works well.
I have reported this to Redhat:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7221
John.
On 19-Nov-99 at 12:32:55 John Horne 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).
>
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