Problem with Bash 2.05a-2

Problem with Bash 2.05a-2

[Hill, Shane]

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G'day,
 
For some reason bash-2.05a-2 does not export the SHELL environment variable.
If you type "echo $SHELL" you get the right response of "/bin/bash",
however, if you type "env | grep SHELL" the variable is not to be seen.
bash-2.05-8 seems to be working correctly though and I have moved back to
this version.
 
I first noticed it when I ran KDE's kvt. For some reason it was using a
Bourne shell and not a Bash shell. I checked the environment for the SHELL
variable and it was not there. I manually set "export SHELL=/bin/bash" and
ran kvt again and it ran correctly with a Bash shell. 

Have Fun !!

Shane Hill

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Airframes and Engines Division,
Aeronautical & Maritime Research Laboratory,
Defence Science & Technology Organisation,
PO Box 4331,
Melbourne, Victoria 3001, AUSTRALIA.
(506 Lorimer St, Fishermens Bend, Vic. 3207, AUSTRALIA.)   
Email:   <mailto:Shane.Hill@dsto.defence.gov.au>
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Re: Problem with Bash 2.05a-2

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Hallo Shane,

Am 2001-11-19 um 00:24 schriebst du:

> G'day,
 
> For some reason bash-2.05a-2 does not export the SHELL environment variable.
> If you type "echo $SHELL" you get the right response of "/bin/bash",
> however, if you type "env | grep SHELL" the variable is not to be seen.
> bash-2.05-8 seems to be working correctly though and I have moved back to
> this version.

$ env | grep SHELL
CONFIG_SHELL=sh
SHELL=/usr/bin/bash

$ cat ~/.bashrc | grep SHELL
export CONFIG_SHELL=sh
export SHELL=/usr/bin/bash

Then it seems to be the reason why I export it myself...

Ciao,

Gerrit P. Haase                            mailto:gp@familiehaase.de
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Re: Problem with Bash 2.05a-2

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

This was discussed last week.  See the email archives for the details.

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At 06:24 PM 11/18/2001, Hill, Shane wrote:
>G'day, 
>   
>For some reason bash-2.05a-2 does not export the SHELL environment variable. If you type "echo $SHELL" you get the right response of "/bin/bash", however, if you type "env | grep SHELL" the variable is not to be seen. bash-2.05-8 seems to be working correctly though and I have moved back to this version. 
>   
>I first noticed it when I ran KDE's kvt. For some reason it was using a Bourne shell and not a Bash shell. I checked the environment for the SHELL variable and it was not there. I manually set "export SHELL=/bin/bash" and ran kvt again and it ran correctly with a Bash shell. 
>
>Have Fun !! 
>Shane Hill 
>============================================================================= 
>Shane D. Hill (Aeronautical Engineer, Hons, University of Sydney) 
>Airframes and Engines Division, 
>Aeronautical & Maritime Research Laboratory, 
>Defence Science & Technology Organisation, 
>PO Box 4331, 
>Melbourne, Victoria 3001, AUSTRALIA. 
>(506 Lorimer St, Fishermens Bend, Vic. 3207, AUSTRALIA.)    
>Email:  <mailto:Shane.Hill@dsto.defence.gov.au>Shane.Hill@dsto.defence.gov.au 
>Voice:  +61 3 9626 7811 
>FAX:    +61 3 9626 7072 
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