On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 12:57:55PM +0100, Zafer Aydogan wrote: > I'm getting following error, after logging in, when using ksh, as the > root shell. > > ksh: /etc/shrc[1]: syntax error: `(' unexpected > > Workaround is to comment out the first line in /etc/shrc. The first line is: ll(){ ls -l ${1+"$@"}; } ?