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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Vtlmgr/newvt usage?
Keywords: vtlmgr newvt sh
Message-ID: <1990Jun29.210554.26366@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 29 Jun 90 21:05:54 GMT
References: <kherron.646589323@s.ms.uky.edu>
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In article <kherron.646589323@s.ms.uky.edu> kherron@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@chinet.chi.il.us