Lars Munch wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 04:20:00PM -0700, BERNDT, JON wrote: > >>I have installed CygWin on numerous machines using teh nice setup program at >>cygwin.com. Recently, however, I have installed CygWin on two machines (one >>a W2K machine and the other a Win98SE machine) and when I tried to run rxvt >>I got strange behavior for the prompt. If I bring up a bash shell >>immediately after installing, then type "rxvt" at the bash prompt, this is >>what shows up in the rxvt console: >> >>--- start --- >>\[\033]0;\w\007 >>\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] >>$ >>--- end --- >> >>I am at a loss to explain what to do. This has not happened to me in prior >>cygwin installs. I checked the FAQ and the mailing list archives for March, >>but could not find any reference to anything new that should have caused >>this. >> > > Put: > > export SHELL=/bin/bash > > in /etc/profile
Yes. rxvt runs $SHELL if present otherwise /bin/sh. Now the real question is why isn't export SHELL=/bin/bash in /etc/profile, or, rather, why isn't the user's shell preference, specified in /etc/passwd taken and exported as SHELL? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
