ksh not reading .profile?

[grindel]

I have a SUSE 9.2 installation running KDE. I've been using ksh for many years now, and am kind of averse to changing to any of the shells offered (bash, ksh etc.) So, I downloaded pdksh and compiled it without too much problem. Changed my shell to ksh. Unfortunately, when I start a terminal session the shell doesn't read my .profile. I've seen this behavior on my Solaris box with CDE, but can't remember the solution. Any ideas?
TIA
Rick

 

[ericbrunson]

First, a recommendation from a diehard ksh fan... don't bother with pdksh. Get ksh from kornshell.com, you have to download a lot of crap, but eventually you'll end up with a ksh binary. If not, just use bash. I prefer ksh for programming and bash for interactive.

Second, are you running it from login correctly? Also, you say you changed your shell to "ksh", do you mean "pdksh"?

 

[grindel]

Thanx for the info - I'll go and check out the AT&T version. In my passwd file, I changed my shell from /bin/bash to /usr/local/bin/ksh. The binary is called ksh not pdksh. I think it's just a setting somewhere in my KDE environment, but danged if I can find it. Not going to spend a WHOLE lot of time on this, but I'd prefer to have ksh over bash. - just my aversion to change kicking in

Thanks...
Rick

 

[ericbrunson]

Ah, you need to run your kterm with some sort of switch to indicate that it's a login shell. for xterm it's "-ls", but I don't use KDE.