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From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problem with xterm-301-1
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140220224047.GC3983@aerie.jexium-island.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A0DB01D693D8EF439496BC8B037A0AEF33116090@xmb-rcd-x15.cisco.com>
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 06:45:00PM +0000, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
> > From: Ola Strömfors [mailto:ola.stromfors@gmail.com]
> >
> > After updating from 291-1 to 301-1 xterm starts /bin/sh instead of
> > my shell specified in /etc/passwd or in the SHELL environment variable.
> >
> > The workaround I have found is to create /etc/shells with a list of
> > permitted shells, e.g.
>
> >From http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log-contents.html#xterm_301:
>
> Patch #301 - 2014/01/19
> only set SHELL environment variable to programs found in /etc/shells (prompted by patch/report by Al Poole).
yes.
(whether xterm should use $SHELL incoming is a different issue that I
am reconsidering)
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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
http://invisible-island.net
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-20 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-20 17:47 Ola Strömfors
2014-02-20 18:33 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2014-02-20 21:58 ` Thomas Dickey
2014-02-20 18:45 ` Matt Seitz (matseitz)
2014-02-20 22:40 ` Thomas Dickey [this message]
2014-02-27 18:06 ` Matt Seitz (matseitz)
2014-02-27 22:00 ` Thomas Dickey
2014-02-28 9:19 ` Corinna Vinschen
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