From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 19 20: 1:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3A6437B42C for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 20:01:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 78D4F55407; Sat, 19 May 2001 19:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6753851610; Sat, 19 May 2001 19:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 19:52:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: julian Cc: , Subject: Re: Shell Q In-Reply-To: <001601c0e0ef$aca601a0$0100a8c0@piii> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On 2001-05-19, julian scribbled: # Why after I have built pdksh and bash and then at # I type pdksh or bash # when I do # # echo $SHELL I get /bin/csh? # # This is all done as root. # # Even set SHELL=pdksh or whatever I stil get /bin/csh from echo even though # the shell appears to change to the newly designated one? To change your shell, run: chsh -s /path/to/shell username You may want to make sure that the shells that you compiled and installed are also listed in /etc/shells for chsh to work (properly). -- Linh Pham [lplist@closedsrc.org] // 404b - Brain not found To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message