My KSH Config. All this does it give you a nice colored prompt. Here's the one liner that does it all:
As user:
echo "export ENV=\$HOME/.kshrc" >> ~/.profile && echo 'PS1="$(print -n "\\033[38;5;214m\\${LOGNAME}\\033[38;5;246m@`hostname` [\\$(date "+%H:%M")] \\033[38;5;180m\\${PWD}\\n\\033[38;5;214m\\$ \\033[0m")"' >> .kshrc
As root:
echo "export ENV=\$HOME/.kshrc" >> ~/.profile && echo 'PS1="$(print -n "\\033[31m\\${LOGNAME}\\033[38;5;246m@`hostname` [\\$(date "+%H:%M")] \\033[38;5;205m\\${PWD}\\n\\033[31m\\$ \\033[0m")"' >> .kshrc
That's it! Yummy colored prompts