Package: esh
Version: 0.8-7
Severity: minor

Any attempt to exec rather than simply run ssh gives an error:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ exec esh
 esh: could not put myself in my own process group.
 esh: permission denied.
 $ 

The esh shell does successfully replace bash, so it's more
offputting than harmful, but it crops up in contexts such as the
invocation in /usr/lib/menu/esh. 

Something to do with utmp?  /dev/pts?

(Oh, and that name.  Maybe it's an "Easy SHell" for CompSci
graduates, but speaking as a non-programmer more familiar with 
straightforwardly imperative commandlines, I don't see anything
especially easy about being Lisp-like.  Maybe that E could also
appropriately stand for "eclectic", or, er, "elisp-like"...)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.hurakan
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages esh depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libreadline4                4.3-11       GNU readline and history libraries

-- no debconf information
-- 
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)


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