From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 20 2:40: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDFA010E69 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 02:39:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from charon@freethought.org) Received: from c40948-a ([24.1.7.99]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.00.03 201-229-104) with SMTP id <19990220103936.GYPF15687.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c40948-a>; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 02:39:36 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990220023922.00a491b0@mail> X-Sender: tuathadedanann@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 02:39:22 -0800 To: Langa Kentane , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: charon@freethought.org Subject: Re: Can't change shell - Please help newbie In-Reply-To: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F318178030416@za12nt02.mweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:19 PM 2/20/99 +0200, Langa Kentane wrote: >I am using FreeBSD-3.0. I have recently installed bash on my system. I >edit the passwd file and changed the path for my shell to reflect the same >path to bash that is reflected on the /etc/shells directory > >Problem is that when I log on I still go straight into csh. I even tried to >change the shell for root and still the same thing happens. I have to change >the shell from the command line everytime now. What am I doing wrong?? Are you using the 'chsh' command? And use 'which bash' to get the location of the shell. Charon@freethought.org http://members.home.net/tuathadedanann/ "Do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message