Re: Problem with xterm-301-1

[Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum dot mit dot edu>]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Ola Strömfors wrote:

> After updating from 291-1 to 301-1 xterm starts /bin/sh instead of
> my shell specified in /etc/passwd or in the SHELL environment variable.

I saw the same thing, but only on my home computer running Windows 7
Pro 64-bit, not on my work laptop running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit.

I start Xwin this way (i.e. same as Cygwin-X group in Start menu):

    C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe

I don't know why SHELL defined as /bin/sh by default (my entry in the
/etc/passwd file invokes bash).  I could not find a way to change
SHELL before XWin starts.

One way I fixed it was to launch xterm from .XWinrc like this:

        "xterm"      EXEC  "xterm -e /bin/bash"

instead of this:

        "xterm"      EXEC  "xterm -ls"

-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us

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