From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 31 20:58: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F175837B403 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 20:58:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv@worldnet.att.net) Received: from worldnet.att.net ([32.100.199.120]) by mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010801035800.JPZ8490.mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net@worldnet.att.net>; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 03:58:00 +0000 Received: by worldnet.att.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A822851004; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 00:02:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 00:02:02 -0400 From: parv To: dan_mclean@mlc.com.au Cc: bsddiy@21cn.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: import OpenBSD ksh Message-ID: <20010801000202.C27358@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: dan_mclean@mlc.com.au, bsddiy@21cn.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from dan_mclean@mlc.com.au on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:18:31PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG on Jul 31 23:46, i got this from dan_mclean... > > I am of the impression the pdksh, (which I think is the free version of ks) > is available as a package. well, official ksh93 is also available from the ports ... sort of, you may have to download the source(s) yourself first... or you could compile it yourself if you could follow the convoluted instructions... > I have however had some trouble with it... if I set a user to have the > shell /usr/local/bin/ksh it doesn't > get set and instead the end up with /bin/sh. If the shell is /bin/csh and > I execute /usr/local/bin/ksh it > works fine. if the default shell is /usr/local/bin/bash every thing is > fine. > > What am I doing wrong. how exactly are you doing the setting? are you just excecuting the shell from command line or changing it via vipw or chsh? i am confused as your first statement suggests that you may be using vipw/chsh but your next statement indicates that you are executing the shell from the cli. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message