On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Frank McCormick <debianl...@videotron.ca> wrote: > On 04/07/2012 04:29 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Frank McCormick <debianl...@videotron.ca> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> �I have run into a problem in Mepis but have been unable to get an answer >>> yet from that community group. The distro is based on Debian Squeeze so I >>> thought someone here night have the answer. Normally I run Debian >>> Sid...Mepis is just an experiment >>> >>> The distro runs fine but slow under KDE, but after I Installed Icewm, I >>> notice when I load an exterm, the prompt I get is "%" not the usual one >>> setup in .bashrc. >>> >>> I have to actually run bash to get the normal prompt. It also affects the >>> time it takes Midnight Commander to load, UNLESS I add the "-u" parm to >>> the >>> command line so it doesn't have shell facilities. >>> >>> Can someone explain what's going on ? >> >> What;s your shell? tcsh? > > I **thought** it was DASH (the apparent default in Squeeze) so I ran > dpkg-reconfigure dash and picked Bash as the default. But maybe it wasn't ? > How do I find out for sure ?
"/bin/dash" is just linked to, by default, to "/bin/sh". Run "echo $SHELL" to find out what shell you're running after logging in. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=szrgitxahgyxfdxreya1cabk36vuw-3tiuvqv4hmd+...@mail.gmail.com
