Greetings, Andrew Schulman! >> I just moved the cygwin installation. The "last" peculiarity I ran into >> was that the login shell, with the shortcut "F:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe >> -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -", a ps showed >> >> /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/bin/bash >> >> instead of /usr/bin/bash >> >> I tracked this down the the windows setting for SHELL, the one you get >> to from windows' SystemProperties dialog, which was >> C:/cygwin64/bin/bash. The /etc/passwd file specifies /bin/bash. >> >> Is this expected behavior? (Though I can see why SHELL is there and I'd >> need to change it)
> /etc/passwd is deprecated. Since Cygwin 2.5 IIRC, Cygwin no longer looks for > it, > getting information about users directly from the operating system instead. > Unless you have a special need for it, you should remove it. Same for > /etc/group. > In the absence of /etc/passwd, setting SHELL is the right way to set your > login > shell. One of the right ways, I'd say. If your aim is the integration of both environments, you MAY set variables, but if you then start a login shell, they may be voided by the startup scripts. I would advise using "more other" ways to configure Cygwin, i.e. using SAM DB comment field. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Tuesday, September 27, 2016 14:09:19 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple