From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Sep 16 20:33:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.globalserve.net (mail5.globalserve.net [209.90.128.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DAC015320 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:33:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lalala@globalserve.net) Received: from lalala (dialin111.montreal.globalserve.net [209.167.12.111]) by mail5.globalserve.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA24972; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:33:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <001301bf00bc$3f480780$6f0ca7d1@lalala> From: "Martin M" To: , References: <128e5100.251309c3@aol.com> Subject: Re: Changing shell Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:25:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org the command "chsh" will open vi on your profile file thing (to use the technical term) where you can change the shell... if you just want to run bash once or twice, just type "bash" on the command line... you might also want to try "tcsh" as a replacement for csh, I've heard say changing root's shell to bash is a bad thing (but have done it myself anyway). ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 11:04 PM Subject: Changing shell > Does anyone know how to change the root shell from csh to bash? > > Thanks > Sam > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message