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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:40:39 -0500
From:      "Dak Ghatikachalam" <dghatikachalam@gmail.com>
To:        "Christian Walther" <cptsalek@gmail.com>, olli@lurza.secnetix.de
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Shell recommendations
Message-ID:  <ba29b9b40701091840m1818d76fl1fec0fdeb61760c6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0701082238j6fc6f819h156f68fd058a6472@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks everyone for the great input and  Feedback,
I read some great capabilities about Zsh( completion capabilities) and pdksh

For now I have compiled and made pdksh and I will try this to see how  that
works. so far it works great did not dump the core,

Thanks
DAk



On 1/9/07, Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 09/01/07, Dak Ghatikachalam <dghatikachalam@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> [...]
> It doesn't matter what you do with your shell, it simply shouldn't crash.
> if you like it, and you would like continue using it, I suggest you
> try to get a working binary. ksh93 hasn't changed since 20060214
> (according to freshports.org), so I guess you're working with the most
> recent version already.
> What you should try is to rebuild this port without any optimization
> set in /etc/make.conf.
> Please comment any CFLAGS= and CPUTYPE= and do a make reinstall.
> This should result in a i386 binary without any optimization. Try
> using it, maybe the core dump is gone. There are several ports out
> there that don't like being built with optimization.
>
> HTH
> Christian
>



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