Re: SHELL variable

[Samuel Stringham <sams marketing-designs com>]

On 2002.12.14 16:52 Pat Suwalski wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Samuel Stringham wrote:
> > Can someone else confirm that 0.19.3 doesn't set the SHELL variable
> on
> > default gdm install?  Is this a gdm bug?  A gnome-session bug?
> Either
> > way, it makes it so you can't run gnome-terminal (it doesn't know
> what
> > to execute).  I will hunt it down some more later if no one has a
> quick
> > answer for me.
>
> This is not limited to Garnome. I have this same problem on Gentoo's
> 1.2r4. I'm not certain how to solve it.
>
> My workaround was to make the terminal execute as 'gnome-terminal -x
> /bin/bash'.
>
> And yes, all of the other environment variables are set.
>
> This is definitely a gnome-terminal thing, because if logged in non-x,
> it
> works fine. Moreover, it works just fine if an xterm is executed.
>
> --Pat

I found it, somehow the shell wasn't specified in my useradd script, so 
/etc/passwd didn't have a SHELL field.  It still shouldn't fail.  Oh 
well.

Samuel Stringham