.kshrc not working

[Roy Francis]

I am running HP-UX11i and have a user who want to use korn shell (ksh).

Whenever she logs in the system does not appear to be reading the .kshrc or .profile files, ie none of the aliasas etc work.

All other shells work okay and ksh works on solaris okay.

Can someone save me some time?

Thanks

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

check, if the user has ksh assigned in /etc/passwd. Any error messages? Check permissions on .profile and .kshrc
When logged in, try . $HOME/.profile

greetings,

Michael

[Umapathy S · Accepted solution]

Check if the user is logging via CDE.
The last line should be uncommented in .dtprofile to make the .profile readable.
DTSOURCEPROFILE=true

If it still persists then it the problem with the terminal they are opening.

echo "*loginShell:true" >/.Xdefaults

[Denver Osborn]

listen the the suggestions above and...

try to "su - username" and verify that the .kshrc or .profile isn't being used. Also look at the user's .profile to see if ENV is exported and what it's exported to (ie/ ENV=.kshrc)

If you are able to su to the user and see it parses each file as expected, then it may be they're using CDE and the .dtprofile does not have "DTSOURCEPROFILE=true". Adding this to the .dtprofile will fix it so your users .profile is read when logging into cde.

hope this helps,
-denver

[Chris Wilshaw]

.kshrc is not used as a default.

ksh uses .profile

If you wish users to execute .kshrc when the log in, the line

export ENV=$HOME/.kshrc

should be added to /etc/profile. This will allow user customisations to be added to the .kshrc file in their home directory.

[Dave La Mar]

Roy -
As others have stated ....
See below for what we do to accomplish this in our environment-
From .profile

# Set up the shell variables:
EDITOR=vi
export ENV=~/.kshrc

From .dtprofile

#
# If $HOME/.profile (.login) has been edited as described above, uncomment
# the following line.
#
DTSOURCEPROFILE=true

Best regards,

dl

[Roy Francis]

Thanks for the replies.

DTSOURCEPROFILE is uncommented
ENV is set
permissions 644 (Ihave also tried 755)

Neither .profile or .kshrc seem to be run.

Any other ideas?

[Umapathy S]

Jose,

Did you try this?
echo "*loginShell:true" >$HOME/.Xdefaults

This will work.

HTH,
Umapathy

[Umapathy S]

Roy, sorry for addressing incorrectly.

[Mark Greene_1]

If you are connecting via exceed or other emulator, you need to include the -ls option on the xterm command to get it to run the .profile.

mark

[Roy Francis]

All

The suggestion by Umapathy worked and solved the problem.

I used echo "*loginShell:true" > $HOME/.Xdefaults as suggested.

Thank you all for your responses.