From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 57154 invoked by alias); 27 Sep 2016 11:20:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 57141 invoked by uid 89); 27 Sep 2016 11:20:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*Ad:D*gov, Schulman, schulman, H*r:ip*192.168.1.10 X-HELO: forward4h.cmail.yandex.net Received: from forward4h.cmail.yandex.net (HELO forward4h.cmail.yandex.net) (87.250.230.19) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:20:15 +0000 Received: from smtp1p.mail.yandex.net (smtp1p.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1472:2741:0:8b6:6]) by forward4h.cmail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 80E51214A7; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:20:12 +0300 (MSK) Received: from smtp1p.mail.yandex.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1p.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id E54A31780C2B; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:20:10 +0300 (MSK) Received: by smtp1p.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id DA8rwFmsdI-K9PqBEsK; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:20:09 +0300 (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) Authentication-Results: smtp1p.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.ru X-Yandex-Suid-Status: 1 0,1 0 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2.darkdragon.lan) by daemon2 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:12:37 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:13:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <1392107644.20160927141237@yandex.ru> To: Andrew Schulman , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Use of SHELL env var by login In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00350.txt.bz2 Greetings, Andrew Schulman! >> I just moved the cygwin installation. The "last" peculiarity I ran into >> was that the login shell, with the shortcut "F:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe >> -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -", a ps showed >> >> /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/bin/bash >> >> instead of /usr/bin/bash >> >> I tracked this down the the windows setting for SHELL, the one you get >> to from windows' SystemProperties dialog, which was >> C:/cygwin64/bin/bash. The /etc/passwd file specifies /bin/bash. >> >> Is this expected behavior? (Though I can see why SHELL is there and I'd >> need to change it) > /etc/passwd is deprecated. Since Cygwin 2.5 IIRC, Cygwin no longer looks for it, > getting information about users directly from the operating system instead. > Unless you have a special need for it, you should remove it. Same for > /etc/group. > In the absence of /etc/passwd, setting SHELL is the right way to set your login > shell. One of the right ways, I'd say. If your aim is the integration of both environments, you MAY set variables, but if you then start a login shell, they may be voided by the startup scripts. I would advise using "more other" ways to configure Cygwin, i.e. using SAM DB comment field. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Tuesday, September 27, 2016 14:09:19 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple