Ksh Breaks With Mt. Xinu Kernel

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <18 at uvaarpa.virginia.edu> mer6g at 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...