Setting multiple ENV for Korn shell

[mrberry]

Does anyone know if there is a way to set multiple ENV for Korn shell logins?

I tried to repeate the line in the users .profile:

ENV=$HOME/.kshrc export ENV
ENV=/system/kshrc export ENV

But the second setting overwrites the first so all the settings in the first are lost.

What I am trying to achieve is setting certain alias for the users, but allowing them to be able to also set their own aliases. The users .profile is not writeable by them because I don't want them to be able to change it.

Thanks,

Mark

 

[comtec17]

How about:

ENV=$HOME/.kshrc:/system/kshrc
export ENV

 

[mrberry]

comtec17, thanks for your reply.

I tried this an none of the kshrc get set with this syntax.

Thanks

Mark

 

[PHV]

Maybe something like this ?
cat /system/kshrc $HOME/.kshrc >$HOME/.kshrc.all
ENV=$HOME/.kshrc.all export ENV

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[mrberry]

OK, I achieved what I wanted to do a different way. I created a system kshrc and set the ENV varable to that. The from within this kshrc I called the users .kshrc.

Thanks to all those who replied.

 

[guggach]

try ksh syntax

export ENV=$HOME/.kshrc

then you need to source it

. $HOME/.kshrc
or
. WHAT-EVER-YOU-WANT

have a look at this dot,
man sh ksh

don't forget, RTFMP guggach