[kman42]

Even if I change Terminal prefs or type in bash explicitly, echo $SHELL reports back '/bin/tcsh'.

If I type in bash to change shells, the prompt changes to having brackets around my host name as bash defaults to doing, but when I check the shell type with echo $SHELL it still reports /bin/tcsh.

Any ideas?

kman

[chaldean oracle]

methinks $SHELL is read from the user info, like $HOME.

e.g. $SHELL remains unchanged on my Linux box when I run 'tcsh' on top of the login bash.

So you can change your shell pref. in Netinfo if you want, or you could use ps perhaps to work out what shell is running...

Are you just curious or is there something you want to work that isn't?

[kman42]

I've been trying to install pan via fink (which I'm also installing fresh) and have been having some trouble. On the second attempt, I read the fink directions more carefully re: X11 configuration and so I did the echo $SHELL. It confused me when it returned tcsh when I was running bash.

I have noticed that fink doesn't work in a bash shell, but works okay in a tcsh shell. I think I have just screwed up my prefs file somewhere and should probably get it fixed sooner rather than later to avoid more confusion later.

kman