Vtlmgr/newvt usage?
Leslie Mikesell
les at chinet.chi.il.us
Sat Jun 30 07:05:54 AEST 1990
In article <kherron.646589323 at s.ms.uky.edu> kherron at ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes:
>I'm running System V/386 3.2, using vtlmgr and newvt to get multiple
>sessions on the console. Both of these programs start /bin/sh on the
>new screens. My default shell is ksh, and my SHELL variable is set to ksh,
>but the programs evidently ignore these settings. Sh does not try to run
>a startup file unless it detects that it's a login shell, of course.
You need to add a line to /etc/default/login that says:
ALTSHELL=YES
to allow anything besides /bin/sh.
Les Mikesell
les at chinet.chi.il.us
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