Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:24:13 -0800 From: Ben Munat <bent@munat.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tab completion Message-ID: <42253FED.4010000@munat.com> In-Reply-To: <20050301182012.GB64444@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <422424B2.1040809@munat.com> <20050301080924.GM8778@dan.emsphone.com> <422427DB.50504@munat.com> <20050301103326.GD5353@gravitas.thebunker.net> <4224A622.5080806@munat.com> <20050301182012.GB64444@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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I used vipw to set my regular user's shell to tcsh. /etc/passwd shows it correct now but I still appear to be getting sh as my shell. If I run tcsh, I then get the tab completion. But how do I get the terminal to put me in tcsh automatically? Ben Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:28:02AM -0800, Ben Munat wrote: > >>None of those commands worked... However, I've also found that echo $SHELL >>in my regular user's terminal says /bin/sh, while as root it says /bin/csh. > > > If you're using /bin/sh, then of course none of the given commands > will work as they are for tcsh. > > >>Both root and the non-root user's shells are listed in /etc/passwd as >>/bin/tcsh, so where else would the shell get set? Can I just set all >>terminals and all users (i.e. me) to have the same shell with the same >>capabilities? > > > I suspect that /etc/passwd has gotten out of sync with master.passwd. > Don't edit /etc/passwd. Use vipw(1) and make your changes within > there.
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