From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 9 10:08:53 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 6491D16A407 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:08:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6ACA13C457 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:08:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (clejqd@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l099cAqR094548; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:38:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id l099cADE094524; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:38:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:38:10 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200701090938.l099cADE094524@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dghatikachalam@gmail.com In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions User-Agent: tin/1.8.2-20060425 ("Shillay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:38:16 +0100 (CET) Cc: Subject: Re: Shell recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dghatikachalam@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:08:53 -0000 Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: > 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, If you can't solve your problem otherwise, I recommend you install zsh (also from /usr/ports), and then make a symlink zsh -> ksh. When zsh is invoked with the name ksh, it emulates the behaviour of ksh. I just tried it, "set -o vi", and it seems to work perfectly well. (zsh also has a lot of additional features, far beyond what you can do with ksh.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. Passwords are like underwear. You don't share them, you don't hang them on your monitor or under your keyboard, you don't email them, or put them on a web site, and you must change them very often.