Sean, Sorry my bad. Thanks for enlightening me.
Abel, ksh -l works for me and will use both of your suggestions.
Thanks
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Sean Kamath <kamath@geekoids.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 3, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
>
> > Then why is it placed there in the FAQ entry? Somebody thought there's a
> > relation there.
>
> It's there because when you start an X terminal (xterm), you can tell xterm
> (via X resource DB) if you want shells it starts to be "login shells", and
> that's what that resource setting is doing. It is not a resource setting
> for ksh. Further, it's in the FAQ about "why isn't my .profile being read"
> for the ksh because most people are completely unaware of what is going on
> when they click that "Terminal" button.
>
> .Xdefaults may or may not be read by X-based applications, and is often
> loaded into the Resource DB of the X server on login (depending on the
> system -- everything does it differently). At one point is was .Xresources
> (which may be what X reads still -- I don't know anymore, I stopped thinking
> about xrdb about 8 years ago).
>
> The space is completely irrelevant, and this thread should die.
>
> > IMHO, I think ksh should be able to read .profile by default
>
> The rules of what ksh reads and when are based on ancient login mechanisms
> -- .profile was read only on login. In the csh, .login was read on login,
> and .cshrc was read on every invocation of csh.
>
> ksh reads the file pointed to by the environment variable ENV on
> invocation.
>
> Put things you want to happen when you log in (via SSH, for example) into
> .profile, and also set ENV=$HOME/.kshrc into it. Then put everything into
> .kshrc that you want to invoke with all subshells.
>
> It's no good to say "I think ksh should do. . ." because it ain't gonna
> happen. It would break all sorts of crap if it did.
>
>
> Sean
>
> PS Linux's pdksh sucks, and does all sorts of weird shit. OpenBSD's ksh is
> much more sane.
>
>
> > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda <
> > acamari@verlet.org> wrote:
> >
> >> .Xdefaults has nothing to do with .profile ...
