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Date:      Tue, 05 Jun 2001 07:36:34 +0700
From:      Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th>
To:        Jim Krenz <unixverse@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: root shell
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.20010605073634.007a74b0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
In-Reply-To: <B73D5A51.2196E%unixverse@mac.com>
References:  <01060110055802.10053@katana.amberskogg.dns2go.com>

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At 02:42 PM 6/1/01 -0700, you wrote:
>on 6/1/01 8:05 AM, Jim Couch at root@katana.amberskogg.dns2go.com wrote:
>
>> Something that I haven't seen mentioned is that,
>> unless you got the installed in a non-standard way, bash oughta be in
>> /usr/local/bin/bash
>
>Another useful thing to do is:
>
>cat /etc/shells
>
>Which I believe shows which shells are installed and where they are located.
>
>Jim
>rank FreeBSD newbie

No, /etc/shells lists the shells any user is permitted to use. You may have
half a dozen shell programs installed, but if you haven't entered their
paths in /etc/shells you won't be able to use chsh to select them.


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