Bob Proulx said: > I think you have hit the nail squarely on the head. How do you make > it work for all possible shells? I believe that to be the crux of the > issue. Anything that is done is wrong for one shell or another.
Well the exec -l $SHELL -c "$STARTUP" solution fixes that provided /bin/sh exec accepts the option like bash. To make it work with other shells would not be hard as the -l option to exec just sets the zero'th argument of the command to '-' which appears to be a convention shared with ash at least. >From the ash man page: If the first character of argument zero to the shell is ``-'', the shell is assumed to be a login shell, and the files /etc/profile and .profile are read if they exist. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
