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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-2.05a-1




Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 01:03:25PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:27:02AM +0000, Don Sharp wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've updated the version of bash in cygwin/latest to 2.05a-1.
> > > >
> > > > This is the official version 2.05a as announced yesterday on
> > > > the Cygwin mailing list by Chet Ramey.
> > > >
> > > ... snip ...
> > >
> > > I now get
> > >
> > > dircolors: no SHELL environment variable, and no shell type option given
> > > dircolors: no SHELL environment variable, and no shell type option given
> > >
> > > It seems that the new bash doesn't provide dircolors with a SHELL
> > > environment variable. Is this a dircolors or bash effect?
> >
> > Honestly, I don't know.  I don't even understand the question.
> > I'm maintaining bash but I'm using tcsh privatly so I need some
> > more hints.  It would even be better you can track that down
> > by yourself and then just blame the source of the problem :-)
> 
> AFAIK, bash sets $SHELL only if $SHELL isn't already set to
> something and if the pw_shell field in the user's /etc/passwd
> entry contains... something.  FWIW, that's not new in 2.05a!
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> Corinna

My /etc/passwd has the pw_shell field set to /bin/bash.
The change of behaviour accompanied the change to bash-2.05a. Just felt
that the change may have been unintentional.

Cheers

Don Sharp

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