Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:47:53 GMT From: "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com> To: jonc@chen.org.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The ENV variable Message-ID: <20060710.114840.3420.305276@webmail58.nyc.untd.com>
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On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 11:28 PM Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> wrote: >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. Whil= e >> 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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