From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 16: 9:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9AC514C96 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:08:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA10555; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:22:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:22:19 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Richard Belanger Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/mailto.html In-Reply-To: <199904202213.SAA24796@bc.seflin.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Richard Belanger wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD 2.2.7. How do I boot into bash instead the default csh > shell? Which files do I have to modify? How many filesystems does the > latest stable FreeBSD version support? imo, bash stinks, but here's how you use it: cd /usr/ports/shells/bash ; make install edit /etc/shells and add the line: /usr/local/bin/bash to it now as a user run the command "chsh" to change your shell. do not, i repeat, do NOT change your root shell to bash, if the machine ever has problems and can't get to /usr/local/* then you will be royally hosed if you can't log in as root. if you want some more fun, try "zsh" cd /usr/ports/shells/zsh ; make install -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message