Re: using old zsh (login shell) to launch new zsh (not in /etc/shells)

Re: using old zsh (login shell) to launch new zsh (not in /etc/shells)

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@nerc3.nerc.com) wrote:
> 		exec '/usr/local/luomat/bin/zsh-3.0.0 -l'

Just drop the quotes:
exec /usr/local/luomat/bin/zsh-3.0.0 -l

With the quotes zsh was trying to exec a program named
"/usr/local/luomat/bin/zsh-3.0.0 -l" (space being a part of the
program name), which naturally failed.

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Re: using old zsh (login shell) to launch new zsh (not in /etc/shells)

[Timothy J. Luoma]

Hrvoje Niksic on 18 Oct 1996 wrote:
> Just drop the quotes:
> exec /usr/local/luomat/bin/zsh-3.0.0 -l

That doesn't work.  It doesn't source .zshenv.

Sorry, should have mentioned that I tried that...

TjL

Re: using old zsh (login shell) to launch new zsh (not in /etc/shells)

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@nerc3.nerc.com) wrote:
> Hrvoje Niksic on 18 Oct 1996 wrote:
> > Just drop the quotes:
> > exec /usr/local/luomat/bin/zsh-3.0.0 -l
> That doesn't work.  It doesn't source .zshenv.

Strange.  As far as I know, every instance of zsh should run .zshenv
on startup.  Any other behaviour should be an anomaly...  Is your
ZDOTDIR maybe set to something strange?  Is the HOME variable properly
defined?

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