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Re: Use of SHELL env var by login
On 9/26/2016 7:18 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
Ernie Rael wrote:
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.
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I don't think cygwin sets the Windows SHELL variable in the
registry. My SHELL value in the System section is 'C:/Bin/Bash.exe',
which isn't a cygwin-looking path (looks like something I set). Are you
sure you didn't set it in the past sometime?
I suppose I might have set it way back when, but I do wonder why I would
have. It's interesting that you also have it set; there must be
something somewhere that prompted its setting. I can't find anything
online that suggests that cygwin would have set it.
In any event, I still wonder why mintty/login use that rather than
/etc/passwd.
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