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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:35:10 +0200
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Subject: Re: zsh as login shell
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What about editing /etc/passwd? Pesonally, I use customized cygwin.bat.

V=C3=A1clav 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
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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
>=20
>   bash --login -i
>=20
> but zsh has no equivalent to the --login option, so I just use
>=20
>   zsh -i
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Is there an elegant solution to this problem? Of course I could
>=20
>   cp -- zsh -zsh
>=20
> and call -zsh, but I would have then to redo this everytime I update zsh
> to a=20
> newer version. Another possibility would be to execute a shell script
> using
> bash and in this script do an
>=20
>   exec -a -zsh zsh -I
>=20
> But maybe someone knows a better way to do this?
>=20
> Ronald=20


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