From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 13: 8:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tornado.hboss.net (hboss.net [216.250.97.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21BD37B408 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:08:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by tornado.hboss.net (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f8DKFUM01811 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 14:15:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from webmaster@hboss.net) To: free bsd Subject: Re: Default shell Message-ID: <1000412130.3ba113e2a3b26@www.hboss.net> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 14:15:30 -0600 (MDT) From: Al Kwan References: <042601c13c8c$81b44e90$a50410ac@olmct.net> In-Reply-To: <042601c13c8c$81b44e90$a50410ac@olmct.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.3 X-Originating-IP: 216.250.96.96 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andre, You can type: # pw usermod username -s /usr/local/bin/bash (this sets "username"'s default shell) Then to change your bash prompt settings, edit your .profile and add something like: PS1="[\t|\u@\h: \w]$" Hope this helps, Al Quoting Andre` Niel Cameron : > Does anyone know how to set your default shell to Bash?(I already > installed > bash) Also, I want it to have the server name like csh not say > Bash-2.0.# > any ideas? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message