zsh as login shell
Václav Haisman
V.Haisman@sh.cvut.cz
Mon Oct 24 12:35:00 GMT 2005
What about editing /etc/passwd? Pesonally, I use customized cygwin.bat.
Václav Hasiman
Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 wrote:
> I would like to have on my Windoze desktop an Icon for zsh running under
>
> Cygwin, similar to the standard Cygwin Icon which runs a bash login
> shell,
> so that I can choose whether to get a window using bash or using zsh.
>
> It works kind of, but I can't get zsh executed as login shell. The BAT
> file
> invoking the bash login shell calls bash using
>
> bash --login -i
>
> but zsh has no equivalent to the --login option, so I just use
>
> zsh -i
>
> which makes the shell interactive, but not login. Zsh considers itself a
> login
> shell iff it is called under a name starting with a dash.
>
> Is there an elegant solution to this problem? Of course I could
>
> cp -- zsh -zsh
>
> and call -zsh, but I would have then to redo this everytime I update zsh
> to a
> newer version. Another possibility would be to execute a shell script
> using
> bash and in this script do an
>
> exec -a -zsh zsh -I
>
> But maybe someone knows a better way to do this?
>
> Ronald
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