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To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, AndreC@Axxs.net
Subject: Re: Default shell
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From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
Date: 13 Sep 2001 15:57:25 -0400
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AndreC@Axxs.net (Andre` Niel Cameron) writes:

> Does anyone know how to set your default shell to Bash?(I already installed
> bash)

Use chsh(1).

>        Also, I want it to have the server name like csh not say Bash-2.0.#
> any ideas?

Um, csh uses just a number sign for the default prompt, so I'm not
sure exactly what you want, but try putting the following in your
.bashrc file:
PS1='\h > '

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