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Shell won't change!

Somehow, playing around with things I've changed my shell to something other than bash. When I get back into bash "bash -l" and type:

Code:

% bash -l

$ echo $SHELL

/usr/bin/wish

$ export SHELL=/bin/bash

$ echo $SHELL

/bin/bash

Then close the terminal open it back up

Code:

% echo $SHELL

can't read "SHELL": no such variable

% bash -l

$ echo $SHELL

/usr/bin/wish

I can't find wish in /etc/profile, I've used chsh, and usermod -s. All with no luck. I don't understand. Why is it defaulting back to wish???

After you used chsh did you log out completely from your session and log in again? chsh changes the value of your shell in /etc/passwd - it doesn't change the currently running shell.

Thanks, I didn't logout of the windows manager. Duh!