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

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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, luomat@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: using old zsh (login shell) to launch new zsh (not in /etc/shells)
Date: 18 Oct 1996 22:13:48 +0200
In-reply-to: "Timothy J. Luoma"'s message of Fri, 18 Oct 96 16:01:58 -0400
References: <199610182001.QAA00887@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 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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