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Date:      Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:28:40 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The  ENV  variable
Message-ID:  <20060710032840.GB60854@osiris.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20060709.184435.15626.301776@webmail04.nyc.untd.com>
References:  <20060709.184435.15626.301776@webmail04.nyc.untd.com>

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On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:43:40AM +0000, gs_stoller@juno.com 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?
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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