Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ksh Breaks With Mt. Xinu Kernel
Message-ID: <7270@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 17 Feb 88 18:42:44 GMT
References: <18@uvaarpa.virginia.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <18@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> mer6g@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Marc E. Rouleau) writes:
-Recently we replaced the 4.3BSD kernel on a MicroVax with the enhanced
-4.3BSD kernel from Mt. Xinu.  ...
-Anyway, ksh, which we ported over from our AT&T toolchest, no longer
-works very well.  In particular, the ENV variable (ENV=.kshrc) is broken.
-Upon login, ksh executes the user's .profile, but not the .kshrc.
-Also, history doesn't work at all, even when you set the HISTFILE variable.

Sounds very much like you're not running ksh at all, but the ordinary
Bourne shell.  Check your /etc/passwd entry.

You might try calling Mt. Xinu...