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Re: screen 4.0.3-5 does not respect $SHELL
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epamail dot epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:00:29 -0400
- Subject: Re: screen 4.0.3-5 does not respect $SHELL
- References: <BAY157-w64AE820D2F752B0BC9AE8E8D540@phx.gbl>
> Initially SHELL=/bin/bash when using a link in start menu.From initial bash prompt, i start screen, fresh session. There all kinds of bash misbehavior occur, including ~/.bashrc having no effect. Apparent reason for that is that $SHELL becomes /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash within screen.
> A workaround is to start screen asscreen -s /bin/bashor have shell specified in .screenrc. Then bash works as expected. That screen does not respect $SHELL seems to be a bug though.
> Thanks to jturney from #cygwin for helping me pinpoint the problem.
> -anna
Hm... odd. I'm not able to reproduce this. I have SHELL=/bin/bash both
inside and outside of screen, and I haven't adjusted it either on the
command line or in .screenrc. /etc/screenrc doesn't set it either.
Can anyone else verify this?
A.
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