interesting problem

After a server reboot for regular mainatanance we face the following situation:

1/ user accounts with ksh can't start the korn shell
2/ korn shell scripts do work however, if executed from bash
3/ normal users with bash can't run ksh
4/ root can run ksh
5/ if I switch the default shell to bash everything is fine
6/ permissions have not changed, all have rx on ksh
7/ profiles are fine

we're out in the dark on this one.

we're using HP-UX 11vi

PS. if I do a ps -ef | grep ksh I see several ksh processes running, the ones we tried to login with, with a minus in front of it: -ksh what does this mean?

but have u check /etc/security/login.cfg ? do u have a path for ksh there ?

Please do the following.

give the o/p of

if you try to change your shell by giving command

what is happening ??

if that command is successful , try executing the remaining ksh scripts.

what is the output of

to find the location of ksh in your path.

also, post the output of the following

What exactly happens?