Am 19. Aug, 2000 schwäzte Mark Berkwitt so: > The installation instructions for Corel WordPerfect state: > The Runme script must operate in the /bin/sh environment. > > How do I know what environment I'm in? Jean's post shows you how to start /bin/sh and make sure you're running in it that way. Also, know that ksh and bash are sh compatable. In fact, in Linux /bin/sh is usually a soft link to bash. /bin/sh is one of the files that should be on *all* *NIX boxen. It's more of a fundamental service than smtp (email transport) :). To find out more about your environment try a few things. A '$ ' at the beginning of a line indicates a (user) shell. $ ps PID TTY TIME CMD 3437 pts/1 00:00:00 bash 8896 pts/1 00:00:00 ps $ The default for ps should just indicate programs being run by your current shell, including the shell itself. Since you were running ps, you know bash is your shell. It's sh compatable, so you're good to go $ grep username /etc/passwd username:x:500:500:generic user:/home/username:/bin/bash $ Here, look for your login id This tells you your default shell, which is what you should be running. $ echo $SHE /bin/bash $ Here replace '' with the tab key and see the shell autocomplete the variable for you :). If it doesn't, you have another variable that starts with SHE, but has something other than L as it's 4th letter. The variable to look at is $SHELL. Finally, for the long version of the first thing: $ tty /dev/pts/3 $ ps aux | grep pts/3 username 3437 0.0 1.1 2148 736 pts/3 S Aug19 0:00 bash username 8902 0.0 1.1 2340 708 pts/3 R 04:59 0:00 ps aux username 8903 0.0 0.8 1364 524 pts/3 S 04:59 0:00 grep pts/3 $ tty tells you what termninal you're on, in this case a pseudo terminal. You then look at the entire process table and grep for the terminal you're on. ciao, der.hans -- # der.hans@LuftHans.com home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.Opnix.com # Help Jerry Lewis stamp out M$...oops that's MDA - der.hans