Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:59:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> To: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it possible to discriminate between shell used in CLI andXWindowmode ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10008201957260.5840-100000@sun34> In-Reply-To: <200008201716.e7KHGq265998@fedde.littleton.co.us>
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Chris Fedde wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:39:38 +0200 (MET DST) Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
> +------------------
> | Concrete: I want to leave csh as root shell on the console and work as
> | root with bash in X Window is it somehow managable ?
> |
> | Regards
> +------------------
>
> start an xterm then run "su -" in it, finaly run "bash --login".
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> At that point you will have a bash shell as user root and run all root's
> .profile and .bashrc stuff
This is the point:probably , I was not precise enough.How to do it
without typing bash --login.Let us try another way:How to set bash as
root's default shell while in X?
Regards.
> Personaly I use sudo for occasional root access.
>
> good luck
> chris
>
>
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