I agree with Mr Kletnieks. I was mistaken. The $SHELL does not give the currently executing shell. It continues to give the original shell (given in the /etc/passwd). thanks. bye shiraz --- Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:40:45 PDT, Shiraz Baig said: > > > You see the point is "which shell are you are > > intrested in?" Are you interested in the currently > > > executing shell. Or you are interested in your > > login shell. The former is aval thru echo $SHELL. > > and the error reporting. The latter is available > > thru cat /etc/passwd. > > Umm.. no... the former (the currently executing > shell) > is *NOT* available in $SHELL in the situation I > described, > because it had been set to the shell specified in > /etc/passwd > rather than the currently executing shell. That was > the *point* > of the posting - $SHELL isn't what you'd naively > expect at that point... > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
