My UNIX SA requires that we start in CSH. I like to use KSH because most of my experience is in that shell. I added ksh to the end of my .login script which does take me into KSH but I would like to automatically execute my .profile to setup my aliases.

I cannot use a .shell file because I need to execute other scripts in my .login that do not run in ksh.

Any thought on how to automatically execute my .profile when switching shells? I am using Solaris.


Thanks in advance,


Steve

for the last line of your script try:
The "exec" and the "-i" force ksh to assume you are logging in.

It will source /etc/profile, then try $HOME/.profile

Jim - that doesn't work going from csh to ksh on Solaris (8 and 2.6) as far as running .profile or .kshrc - even though the man page seems to say it would.

It works!

Great - now you have me stumped on why it doesn't work on my servers!

Woops. I was replying to the wrong forum. Here is how to do it:

setenv ENV .profile
/bin/ksh

Okay, that worked. At least for .profile but doesn't run .kshrc (which I would have thought it would run it also but no big deal). Did the exec /bin/ksh -i work for you?
(I've been trying to get something to work over the last day in spare time - would have thought it would have been easier!)