From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 10 02:40:40 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 7A75316A412 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:40:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dghatikachalam@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.239]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D1F713C44B for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:40:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dghatikachalam@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so7934974wxc for ; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:40:39 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=ZngHxRSBZof+IPsEm+uGjo6UkjjBRGJSkg7jdzNHOIxCsXi9po141/QrafDmzTPMt35jYX6gRBL4LhYU2T4JznKUOMamxCCcuLB0NQcyB996LV9QpJRPP71Xn0BlR7bIFr799tUlk/cq6uV+qAUPn+NWVLjGOvjTSV6lWE20SPs= Received: by 10.70.129.4 with SMTP id b4mr52288989wxd.1168396839761; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:40:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.52.12 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:40:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:40:39 -0500 From: "Dak Ghatikachalam" To: "Christian Walther" , olli@lurza.secnetix.de In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0701082238j6fc6f819h156f68fd058a6472@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <14989d6e0701082238j6fc6f819h156f68fd058a6472@mail.gmail.com> 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 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:40:40 -0000 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 wrote: > > On 09/01/07, Dak Ghatikachalam 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 >