From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 18 8: 5: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.netlabs.net (www.netlabs.net [216.116.128.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0769157C9 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:04:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keerf@webster.mt.lucent.com) Received: from cc1023345-b (cc1023345-b.etntwn1.nj.home.com [24.3.208.172]) by www.netlabs.net (8.9.2/8.9.0) with SMTP id LAA28017; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:05:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000a01bee98b$19c4b3c0$acd00318@cc1023345-b.etntwn1.nj.home.com> From: "Terry Warner" To: "Bill A. K." , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: roots shell Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:05:24 -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 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hey Bill, one way you can change it is with chsh it will open up and editor .. just change the shell to /usr/local/bin/bash or whever bash is installed on your system Terry Warner keerf@netlabs.net -----Original Message----- From: Bill A. K. To: FreeBSD Questions Date: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 9:50 AM Subject: roots shell >hi, > >is there any way to change root's default shell from csh to bash. i'm doing >a lot of work on my system and i'm sick of having to start bash at every >shell i open. any help would be greatly appreciated. > >i've already changed the path to my shell in both /etc/passwd and >/etc/master.passwd but it didn't change it. > >and i would also like to know how to customize my bash prompt with my >current directory for example. > >thanks > >Bill >billieakay@yahoo.com > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message