From: Andrew Schulman <schulman.andrew@epa.gov>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Use of SHELL env var by login
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80skub16p5kh2dij73308plbrdcelgdafn@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392107644.20160927141237@yandex.ru>
> 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.
OK. First I've heard of that. Can you explain how Ernie would do it?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-27 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-26 20:53 Ernie Rael
2016-09-27 2:24 ` Linda Walsh
2016-09-27 5:35 ` Ernie Rael
2016-09-27 11:20 ` Andrew Schulman
2016-09-27 13:13 ` Andrey Repin
2016-09-27 14:48 ` Andrew Schulman [this message]
2016-09-27 15:14 ` Andrey Repin
2016-09-27 16:50 ` Linda Walsh
2016-09-27 17:12 ` Andrey Repin
2016-09-27 17:22 ` Linda Walsh
2016-09-28 4:17 ` Ernie Rael
2016-09-27 17:18 ` Achim Gratz
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