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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 09:58:54 +0100 (BST)
From: "Dr.D.J.Picton" <dave AT aps5 DOT ph DOT bham DOT ac DOT uk>
Reply-To: "Dr.D.J.Picton" <dave AT aps5 DOT ph DOT bham DOT ac DOT uk>
Subject: Re: Various shell problems
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> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:23:06 -0400
> From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>

> To: "Dr.D.J.Picton" <dave AT aps5 DOT ph DOT bham DOT ac DOT uk>
> CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Various shell problems
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> Dr.D.J.Picton wrote:
> > 
> > 3. /bin/sh sources /etc/profile when called from ftp.exe
> > If SHELL isn't exported or is set to /bin/sh, ftp.exe uses the /bin/sh
> > shell for shell escapes.  Unfortunately the working directory of the shell
> > is then always set to the user's home directory.  Now I know why - for 
> > some reason, /bin/sh thinks it's a login shell and sources the profile. 

Here is my fix to /etc/profile to circumvent the problem.  All the code is
skipped if it detects that the profile has already been run, and argument
zero is set to "-sh":

At the start of the file:

# fix for ftp problem ...
if [ -z "$PROFILE_ALREADY_DONE" -o "$0" != "-sh" ]; then
export PROFILE_ALREADY_DONE=1

At the end of the file:

fi


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