Login shell always spawns bash

[tetralet]

Login shell always spawns bash

[prg318]

Forgive me because I only looked at the source briefly, but I couldn't find when the 'final_argv' or 'full_argv' variables were checking the system shell for what shell to use in this file:

LilyTerm/src/notebook.c

Line 363 in deb1a76

final_argv,

[Tetralet]

The 'shell' is came from $SHELL environ... is it set to /bin/sh?

[prg318]

$SHELL on my system is set to "/bin/ksh". Here are my steps to reproduce:

Set $SHELL to "/bin/ksh"
Start lilyterm with "lilyterm -l"

When I run "ps faux", I see that "lilyterm -l" has the following children:
"gnome-pty-helper"
"-" (literally just "-". This is generally where the shell will be.)

My current workaround has been to use "-/bin/ksh" as my $SHELL variable when launching lilyterm.

[blueyed]

What does the "-" in SHELL=-/bin/ksh stand for?

[prg318]

The "-" prefix to a shell path in the $SHELL variable can indicate that the shell should be opened as a login shell. For example, I use this in my GNU screen configuration to force a login shell for each window. I'm actually having a tough time finding documentation to back this up though (I'm sure I had a better idea 5 months ago).

I was experiencing the issue on a legacy system (CentOS/RHEL 5.4) and I'm no longer able to reproduce it. Thanks for taking the time to reply to this. Unless anyone else is experiencing this issue, I'm going to go ahead and close the issue.