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Subject: Re: tab completion
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I used vipw to set my regular user's shell to tcsh. /etc/passwd shows it correct now but I 
still appear to be getting sh as my shell. If I run tcsh, I then get the tab completion. 
But how do I get the terminal to put me in tcsh automatically?

Ben


Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:28:02AM -0800, Ben Munat wrote:
> 
>>None of those commands worked... However, I've also found that echo $SHELL 
>>in my regular user's terminal says /bin/sh, while as root it says /bin/csh. 
> 
> 
> If you're using /bin/sh, then of course none of the given commands
> will work as they are for tcsh.
> 
> 
>>Both root and the non-root user's shells are listed in /etc/passwd as 
>>/bin/tcsh, so where else would the shell get set? Can I just set all 
>>terminals and all users (i.e. me) to have the same shell with the same 
>>capabilities?
> 
> 
> I suspect that /etc/passwd has gotten out of sync with master.passwd.
> Don't edit /etc/passwd. Use vipw(1) and make your changes within
> there.