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korn shell - Mar. 28, '03, 6:23:19 PM

pburns

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The Korn shell is supposed to start up a .profile file in your local directory upson startup of a login shell. When this happens I get an error message
" ksh: /dev/fs/C/pburns/.profile ignored: improper write permissions"

Any ideas?

The file' s permissions allow reading, writing, execution and the sticky bit is not set.

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RE: korn shell - Mar. 28, '03, 6:36:43 PM

Rodney

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Make sure that you own the file and set the mode of the file to " 600" :
chmod 600 .profile

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RE: RE: korn shell - Mar. 28, '03, 8:18:47 PM

pburns

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OK thanks for the help. It turned out that the default umask setting for the tcsh was 0, which combined with the default system mask, resulted in a file creation which has the group and other read/write permission turned on. The tcsh shell wouldn' t read the file until the other/group write permissions were turned off. I created the .tcshrc and the .profile files in the tcsh shell so this created the problems for both shells.

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