Hi folks!

I am kind of frustrated with this ... I just downloaded and installed
the rpm for ksh93 from rpmfind.net.

I am running under Red Hat 8.0. and KDE. The thing is that I created a
user
#useradd -s /bin/ksh student

and I created under ~student:

.profile
VISUAL=emacs
export VISUAL

then I logged out and logged back in as user 'student'
and did:

$set | grep VI

and NOTHING was displayed!!!!!

The curious thing is that it works when I do as 'student':

$su - student
...
$set | grep VI
VISUAL=emacs

WHY could this be happening!!! What else do I need to make it work?

Thank you very much in advance!

Max

Now I think ksh93 is indeed reading .profile, the problem
was that the terminal was forking a normal subshell not a login shell.

I haven't found yet the way of how to fix this for gnome. But I tried
adding --ls to the options for starting 'konsole' and it worked!

What still bothers me is WHY when I log in graphically gdm doesn't
start a login shell like IT SHOULD. I mean when I log in graphically
gdm should know which my login shell is, and read my .profile at that
very first time, so that when I start any subshell I will have my
.profile env variables already set.

The curious thing is that it does indeed read .bash_profile when
logging in graphically, when the login shell is bash not ksh!

I wonder if there's something I can set to make it work correctly.?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Max