Re: Test 7 : How can I change my default shell?

[Bob McGowan <rmcgowan at veritas dot com>]

xterm .... -e bash

The -e option MUST be the last option to xterm, so it will take all the rest of the args and use them to exec the shell (or whatever program is specified).  Depending on
where/how you start this, either or both of xterm/bash may need to be referenced by absolute paths.

When xterm starts, if there is no -e and no SHELL variable set, it will default to /bin/sh (ash on Cygwin).  So you could also try setting SHELL=bash somewhere.  But I
think the -e option is probably more reliable.

Harold Hunt wrote:
> 
> Wait, you're still getting bash when you run Cygwin, but you get ash in your
> xterm, right?
> 
> In that case, I'd guess that you need to configure xterm to launch bash
> instead of ash... I'm guessing that it can be done, but I've never done it,
> so I can't really help in that direction.
> 
> Of course, you could just run bash from within ash.
> 
> Harold
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Eibach [mailto:a.eibach@gmx.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 10:38 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Test 7 : How can I change my default shell?
> 
> hi there,
> 
> obviously, I misplaced my question in an inappropriate thread before, so I'm
> going to ask again.
> 
> After having downloaded all the xfree binaries plus those Win9x fixes from
> Harold, I'm getting the 'ash' shell instead of bashrc.
> Could anyone please give me a hint where to change this?
> 
> Andreas

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Bob McGowan
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