korn or bash shell 1

[ddrillich]

Good Day,

I run the following commands -

$ bash
$ echo $SHELL
/bin/ksh

Does it make sense? ; - )

Regards,
Dan

 

[SamBones]

[tt]SHELL[/tt] is an environment variable that's being set by your logon shell, [tt]/bin/ksh[/tt]. Just running "[tt]bash[/tt]" doesn't reset it, it just carries over.

 

[ddrillich]

Much appreciated Sam.

Regards,
Dan

 

[SamBones]

If you want "[tt]bash[/tt]" to act as if you actually logged onto it as your default shell, this will get pretty close...

$ exec bash --login

Of course if you really want it to be your login shell, the cleanest way is to put it into your entry in [tt]/etc/passwd[/tt].

 

[ddrillich]

Thank you Sam.