Zafer Aydogan <zafer@aydogan.de> wrote:

> 2007/1/10, Pavel Cahyna <pavel@netbsd.org>:
>> 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 ${1+"$@"}; }
>> ?
>>
> Yes, that line produces the error, if you have /bin/ksh as the shell
> for root.  Any ideas why ?

May be you have "ll" already defined/aliases as something in your
/root/.shrc so instead of function defintion ksh sees something else?

SY, Uwe
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