From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 26 00:22:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D212E16A4CF for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:22:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5569343D2F for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:22:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF3460DA; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:22:27 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 66109-05; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:22:25 -0600 (CST) Received: from [216.201.118.138] (racerx.makeworld.com [216.201.118.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C84DB60D6; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:22:23 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4244AB6B.4000703@makeworld.com> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:23:07 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050313) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gert Cuykens References: <20050325234152.GA12816@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .cshrc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:22:28 -0000 Gert Cuykens wrote: >>>I created a new user and put a .cshrc in his home directory but >>>nothing happens ? >> >>Why should anything happen? What did you expect to happen? > > > This :) > > FX-53# cat .cshrc > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/root/dot.cshrc,v 1.29 2004/04/01 19:28:00 krion Exp $ > # > # .cshrc - csh resource script, read at beginning of execution by each shell > # > # see also csh(1), environ(7). > # > > alias h history 25 > alias j jobs -l > alias la ls -a > alias lf ls -FA > alias ll ls -lA > > # A righteous umask > umask 22 > > set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin > /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin $HOME/bin) > > setenv EDITOR joe > setenv PAGER more > setenv BLOCKSIZE K > > if ($?prompt) then > # An interactive shell -- set some stuff up > set prompt = "`/bin/hostname -s`# " > set filec > set history = 100 > set savehist = 100 > set mail = (/var/mail/$USER) > if ( $?tcsh ) then > bindkey "^W" backward-delete-word > bindkey -k up history-search-backward > bindkey -k down history-search-forward > endif > endif > FX-53# > > So the question is why does root uses csh shell and the a user a sh > shell. What brings me to the following question , What is the best > shell to use :) Useing vipw (as root) change the users shell from: /bin/sh - to - /bin/csh That's all -- Best regards, Chris Performance is directly affected by the perversity of inanimate objects.