Re: The ENV variable

2006-07-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 11:28 PM  Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:43:40AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>  The shell variable  ENV  is supposed to name a script to be
>> invoked whenever the Korn shell starts up an interactive shell.  While
>> this is the case for just about all users, on my system it is not the
>> case for users with the user-id of  root .  Is this how  UNIX  is
>> supposed to work?

>By default, root uses csh. Have you modified your root to use ksh?

 ksh  is more powerful than  csh , so I use it almost all the time,
ergo I am more familiar with it.  Yes, I have.

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Re: The ENV variable

2006-07-09 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:43:40AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>   The shell variable  ENV  is supposed to name a script to be
> invoked whenever the Korn shell starts up an interactive shell.  While
> this is the case for just about all users, on my system it is not the
> case for users with the user-id of  root .  Is this how  UNIX  is
> supposed to work?

By default, root uses csh. Have you modified your root to use ksh?
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