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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:17:50 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-2.05a-1
Message-ID: <20011116131750.C16860@cygbert.vinschen.de>
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In-Reply-To: <20011116130325.B16860@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 01:03:25PM +0100

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

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