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Date:      Sat, 19 May 2001 22:05:59 -0700
From:      "julian" <jsteinberg@maverickssurf.com>
To:        <questions@freebsd.org>, <shanslyvia@mediaone.net>
Subject:   Shell Q
Message-ID:  <001601c0e0ef$aca601a0$0100a8c0@piii>

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Why after I have built pdksh and bash and then at # I type pdksh or bash
when I do

echo $SHELL I get /bin/csh?

This is all done as root.

Even set SHELL=pdksh or whatever I stil get /bin/csh from echo even though
the shell appears to change to the newly designated one?

Thank you,

JSS

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