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Subject: RE: zsh as login shell
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:44:51 +0200
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From: "Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3" <mn-pg-p-e-b-consultant-3 DOT com AT siemens DOT com>
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> Use mkzsh to do this.  For help, type 'mkzsh --help'

Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for.

> > 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
> >
> >  bash --login -i
> 
> See the '-l' option of zsh in the manpages.

Thank you, this works equally well.

I had searched the manpages for this option, but overlooked it...

Ronald

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