Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> When I run ksh, LOGIN_SHELL is *always* set to "NO". It doesn't matter if
> I execute ksh from another shell, from an xterm with "-ls" set, manually
> as "ksh -" or "ksh -l", or whatever.

The {{ ksh - }} is not a login shell. If  I remember correctly Korn shell starts
up as login shell with the following syntax {{ -ksh }}.  Unfortunately my
systems are down, and I can not verify nor elaborate on this.Give it a try!

Cheers Igor,
:^)*