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+<listitem><para>August 28, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 06 -
+Bash: Added a note regarding interactive vs non-interactive
+shells.</para></listitem>
+
<listitem><para>August 28, 2003 [matt] - Updated packages
to linux-2.4.22, man-pages-1.60, expect-5.39.0,
findutils-4.1.20 and tcl-8.4.4</para></listitem>
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<sect2>
<title>Installation of Bash</title>
+<para>Bash has different default behavior when called as an interactive and
+a non-interactive shell. It is possible to change this by opening the config-top.h file and commenting out the line:</para>
+<para><filename>#define NON_INTERACTIVE_LOGIN_SHELLS</filename></para>
<para>Bash has a number of bugs in it that cause it to not behave the
way it is expected at times. Fix this behaviour with the following
patch:</para>