short korn shell question

[Guest_imported]

I use RH7.1, the bash shell is the default shell when installed.(you knew that!)
I installed ksh during setup. Then I set up user "BillBob" to have ksh as login shell.
Question:

I'm having trouble trying to understand how to set up the initial environment settings for ksh to work well for user "BillBob". I understand that I need the files .profile and .kshrc in /home/BillBob, but they're not there after default install.

I have a general understanding of these two files, but I'm not sure about /etc/profile (default install) and how it influences these two other files down the road.

 

[KenCunningham]

/etc/profile is executed first and generally contains system-wide parameters such as generic PATH variables etc. <home>/.profile is then used to customise these settings to a specific user, for example to enable them to use specific applications or resources. Hope this helps.

 

[HenryMonster]

Just a reminder:

to see the files whoose names start with .
do not forget to use the -a switch of the ls command.