From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 26 7:28:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from skygod.cns.ksu.edu (skygod.cns.ksu.edu [129.130.61.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2239A150FD for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 07:28:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beemern@ksu.edu) Received: from ksu.edu ([129.130.61.24]) by skygod.cns.ksu.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA40839; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:01:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from beemern@ksu.edu) Message-ID: <388F12E2.E8BE86B0@ksu.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:29:38 -0600 From: nathan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Hays Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more specifics on my shell issues References: <003f01bf6810$c8bf2a00$297631cc@ecofl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sam Hays wrote: > I'm defaulting as csh, > I'm (for right now) wanting to go to /bin/sh, rather than /bin/csh, > my understanding was that you can edit your ~/.profile (or something > similar) to change your > default shell? or am I going to have to pull a passwd -s /bin/sh or > something? hmm... maybe you're thinking of the command vipw that allows to you manually edit the passwd file and you can change the /bin/csh to whatever you'd like just make sure its a VALID SHELL... or you could be in for some surprises :) hope it helps!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message