Bug 38848

Summary:	exec hangs in .profile script for /bin/sh
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	John Benninghoff <jbenninghoff>
Component:	bash	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description John Benninghoff 2001-05-02 21:24:22 UTC

My .profile script hangs when it attempts to exec another shell.  My
login shell is /bin/sh.  You can reproduce this by creating an account
with /bin/sh as the login shell and then place an exec /bin/bash in
the .profile script.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-05-03 15:40:57 UTC

This is the expected behavior - your inital shell executes .profile, which in 
turn executes /bin/bash, which in turn executes .profile, and so on.
If you want to change your login shell, use chsh, not exec.