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Date:      Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:33:21 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   OT: environment variables, job control
Message-ID:  <20040429231930.D8617@floyd.gnulife.org>

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   I'm using FreeBSD 4.9. Hopefully this is not too far off-topic.

   My login shell is set to /bin/csh. Why is it that when I:

% /bin/sh
$ echo $SHELL

  I get:
$ /bin/csh


   Also, I noticed that when I invoke sh , and I:

$ sleep 40

   The sleep process has a different process group ID than the parent
(shell). I thought by default the bourne shell did not support job
control. From my understanding, it will support job control if you use the
-m switch.


     - Jamie




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