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Subject: Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH
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Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 22:31:17 +0100
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From: "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>
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Am 08.12.2015, 22:26 Uhr, schrieb Helmut Karlowski:

> Am 08.12.2015, 22:21 Uhr, schrieb Achim Gratz:
>
>> Helmut Karlowski writes:
>>>> Can you tell me in which circumstances this happens and why this is a
>>>> problem?  SHELL is supposed to be the user preference, so I don't  
>>>> think
>>>> /etc/profile should try to second-guess it.
>>>
>>> /etc/profile is run before ~/.profile, and if that does not set SHELL
>>> there will be none.
>>
>> Yes, but why is this a problem?  Note that bash will set it anyway if
>> not present.

All shells set it only when run as login-shell.

-Helmut


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