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From:	Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: termcap problem in RXVT?
Date:	Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:06:35 -0800
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Lars Munch wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 04:20:00PM -0700, BERNDT, JON wrote:
> 
>>I have installed CygWin on numerous machines using teh nice setup program at
>>cygwin.com. Recently, however, I have installed CygWin on two machines (one
>>a W2K machine and the other a Win98SE machine) and when I tried to run rxvt
>>I got strange behavior for the prompt. If I bring up a bash shell
>>immediately after installing, then type "rxvt" at the bash prompt, this is
>>what shows up in the rxvt console:
>>
>>--- start ---
>>\[\033]0;\w\007
>>\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
>>$ 
>>--- end ---
>>
>>I am at a loss to explain what to do. This has not happened to me in prior
>>cygwin installs. I checked the FAQ and the mailing list archives for March,
>>but could not find any reference to anything new that should have caused
>>this.
>>
> 
> Put:
> 
> export SHELL=/bin/bash
> 
> in /etc/profile

Yes. rxvt runs $SHELL if present otherwise /bin/sh. Now the real 
question is why isn't export SHELL=/bin/bash in /etc/profile, or, 
rather, why isn't the user's shell preference, specified in /etc/passwd 
taken and exported as SHELL?




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