From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 9 04:57:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501B916A407 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:57:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dghatikachalam@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1498B13C455 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:57:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dghatikachalam@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so7628005wxc for ; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:57:22 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=mVza+Grt18T26D9l/66/0Kan5A22L7ZLoNsh38dLoiboPguGSDchU0UKqtEv8ocHMeuerCURWvJ5ZNb88rKutv4BPYZ3drv7HIDuSjHWqEzDMwEYvJQNNJXD6pxsqJyOZN1T3XFODIe4Zt/6ER9uBOXNC7vnS2tiOino8CCemXA= Received: by 10.70.17.1 with SMTP id 1mr23689616wxq.1168318642556; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:57:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.52.12 with HTTP; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 20:57:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 23:57:22 -0500 From: "Dak Ghatikachalam" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Shell recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:57:23 -0000 Hi Freebsd I am using ksh93 shell as my login shell each and everytime I do set -o vi and perform some commands it simply dumps ksh93.core file and crashed whole terminal session, I have been having this problem everrsince I changed my login shell from /bin/sh to /bin/ksh which is symbolic link of ksh93 executable I compiled off the freebsd /usr/ports/ I wonder if anyone has similar issues with this ksh or am I doing something stupid I love using ksh due to the fact you can edit and scroll back and forth as in vi commands, if you have had this issue, what did you go about doing. Any suggestion here would be great help Thanks Dak