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Default Shell
Name: Neil Date: March 25, 2003 at 03:29:36 Pacific OS: Solaris CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
Using the admintool I set the user neil to use the bash shell which is located at /usr/local/bin/bash.
When CDE starts bash loads fine but when KDE starts and I type echo $SHELL it returns /usr/local/bin/bash but its not using the bash shell, its actually just using sh.
Have I done something wrong? I would appreciate a hand with this!
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