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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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3103.1000" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=873170305-20052001>Why after I have built pdksh and bash and then at # I type pdksh or bash when I do </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=873170305-20052001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=873170305-20052001>echo $SHELL I get /bin/csh?</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=873170305-20052001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=873170305-20052001>This is all done as root.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=873170305-20052001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=873170305-20052001>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?</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=873170305-20052001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=873170305-20052001>Thank you,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=873170305-20052001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=873170305-20052001>JSS</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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