From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 107005 invoked by alias); 27 Sep 2016 13:13:28 -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 106948 invoked by uid 89); 27 Sep 2016 13:13:28 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*Ad:D*gov, H*MI:sk:c3kkub9, H*MI:sk:1392107, H*f:sk:1392107 X-HELO: blaine.gmane.org Received: from Unknown (HELO blaine.gmane.org) (195.159.176.226) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:13:27 +0000 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bosC2-0002zX-9m for cygwin@cygwin.com; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:13:06 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew Schulman Subject: Re: Use of SHELL env var by login Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:48:00 -0000 Message-ID: <80skub16p5kh2dij73308plbrdcelgdafn@4ax.com> References: <1392107644.20160927141237@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive: encrypt X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00351.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. OK. First I've heard of that. Can you explain how Ernie would do it? -- 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