Subject: Re: Changing shells
From: Jacob Gemmell (evilbob@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 14:59:49 AKDT
Put the entire path to the bash binary in /etc/shells and then run the
chsh command to switch the default shell for that user. For the default
shell for new users, where to change that. I suppose you could go into
your /etc/passwd file as root and manually change it there.
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:04:03 -0800
> From: Jon Reynolds <jon@destar.net>
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: Changing shells
>
>
> I have a freebsd4.6 box and when it boots it automagically goes into the csh
> shell. I installed bash1 and want it to be the default systemwide shell.
> Where would I make the change for this? I have been looking around and found
> how to do it for users but not systemwide. I have a command in my
> /etc/rc.local that won't start using the csh shell I get an 'ambiguous
> output redirect' message. When I switch over to sh and run the same command
> it works just fine. But I need this command to start at system bootup time.
> Any ideas?
>
> Jon
>
>
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