Installing Korn Shell in Fedora

bostonantifan · 03-13-2007, 07:01 PM

Can anyone tell me where I can download a korn shell package to install in Fedora 6? Since I'm a newbie to Linux, any installation instructions, advice, tips, etc. would also be GREATLY appreciated.
Peter V.

homey · 03-13-2007, 07:15 PM

ksh - The Original ATT Korn Shell

I would just use the package manager called yum to install it.

Code:

as root user ( su - )
yum install ksh

bostonantifan · 03-13-2007, 07:19 PM

Homey, that sounds great. (The simpler the better.) One question, how do I set the OS to use ksh as the default instead of bash?
Thanks for the info!

homey · 03-13-2007, 07:42 PM

Originally, my /etc/passwd looks like this

Code:

fred:x:500:500::/home/fred:/bin/bash

You may have good success by changing it to something like this

Code:

fred:x:500:500::/home/fred:/bin/ksh

You might also check out this page toward the bottom.
http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/ksh.html

bostonantifan · 03-14-2007, 10:18 PM

Homey, thanks for the info and the link. I also found out that the command chsh will change the login shell, as well as the user entry in the passwd file. I'm now looking into how to create the .profile and src files for the Korn shell and where to place them to execute when I login. Again, thanks for your help.

Peter V.

Mehuge · 03-20-2007, 10:41 AM

From man ksh:-

/etc/profile read to set up system environment
$HOME/.profile read to set up user's custom environment