The ENV variable

gs_stoller at juno.com gs_stoller at juno.com
Mon Jul 10 18:49:17 UTC 2006


On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 11:28 PM  Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>  wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:43:40AM +0000, gs_stoller at juno.com wrote:
>> 	The shell variable  ENV  is supposed to name a script to be
>> invoked whenever the Korn shell starts up an interactive shell.  While
>> this is the case for just about all users, on my system it is not the
>> case for users with the user-id of  root .  Is this how  UNIX  is
>> supposed to work?

>By default, root uses csh. Have you modified your root to use ksh?

	 ksh  is more powerful than  csh , so I use it almost all the time,
ergo I am more familiar with it.  Yes, I have.



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