Ksh version problem under Redhat

[Elizabeth Allen]

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Hello
I have RHEL 4 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4), installed on two machines. On one of this (machine 1), I made an installation "basic", i.e I have not used the extra CD. On the other (machine 2) I used this CD, which I found KSH, so I installed that. But surprise, I found myself with KSH on both (I want), but especially with two different versions of KSH. If I could identify version KSH, AC I would have fewer problems, but this is not the case: In the man ksh, it is clear that KSH set an environment variable, KSH_VERSION. Now on the machine 2, this variable is not present when I am in ksh. Is there a way to know what is the shell used in a given terminal? Any help on this is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[WinDoWLoCuS]

Hello,
I think you have not installed the korn shell properly during the installation, that is why you are getting such an error, with a little luck, ksh is installed via an rpm
Here is the command to install it, if you have not installed it properly then you can try installing again

rpm-qa | grep ksh

Here you have to issue this command in the terminal as a root user.

[Linux-Us]

Hello,
This is what you should get when you do the man command in the terminal. The man may be for ksh (RHE3):

VERSION
This page documents version
@ (#) PD KSH v5.4.14 8/04/14.2
public domain korn shell.

Just type the man command in your terminal and see what is the result you are getting.

[Elizabeth Allen]

Hello
It gives something:
Machine 1:

pdksh-5.2.14-30

Machine 2:

ksh-20040229-12

good as the first seems to be a correct result, which gives something usable, but the second ... Well I do not understand what it says. Can you please explain me, why the second is not showing the correct result.

[WinDoWLoCuS]

Hello,
Just try the following commands

Which ksh

followed by

ls-al [will display all]

Sometimes a facility would have simply made a glib link (symbolic, it is more visible) on sh ksh or bash). Hope the following information will help you. If yo have any other problem then do post back.