From: Richard Hector <rich...@walnut.gen.nz> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:38:54 +1300 > The shell you run interactively (specified per-user in /etc/passwd) is > usually bash, because it's more friendly for interactive use. Dash is > smaller and lighter, and chosen presumably for that reason to run most > of the system scripts, which use /bin/sh explicitly.
Thanks for explaining. Another puzzle. I have two Squeeze systems which are almost identical. In both, my entry in /etc/passwd is the same and I added this line at the end of ~/.profile. export EDITOR=vi On one system "echo $EDITOR" confirms the setting. On the other system the setting is absent. Where should I look to understand this? Thanks, ... Peter -- Telephone 1 360 639 0202. Former telephone 1 360 450 2132. bcc: peasthope ... shaw.ca "http://carnot.yi.org/"; "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary"; -- 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/171057377.62415.38825@heaviside.invalid
