Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:23:40 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bash in /usr/local/bin? Message-ID: <20010814132340.B36548@fling.sanbi.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <3B758BB5.D529AA5F@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:47:01PM -0700 References: <3B74D180.D036D629@hway.net> <20010810233635.A12077@xor.obsecurity.org> <p0510100fb79b2a85857c@[128.113.24.47]> <3B758BB5.D529AA5F@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert on 2001-08-11 (Sat) at 12:47:01 -0700:
>
> Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> >
> > As to Jason's situation, I also like to use bash as my shell
> > even when I am root. However, I do not want to muck around with
> > the port for 'bash', or do anything else to move where bash is
> > or how it's built. So, the way I decided to handle it was to
> > add the following lines in the /root/.login file:
> >
> > if ( -x /usr/local/bin/bash ) then
> > # echo "Switching to bash"
> > exec /usr/local/bin/bash -login
> > endif
> >
> > So, strictly speaking /bin/csh is still the default shell for
> > root, but the effect for me is that I automatically get bash
> > whenever I log in. This seems to work fine for me, and I am
> > not aware of any problems which have been caused by this trick
> > in the few years that I have been using it.
>
> Add "setenv SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash", and only do your trick
> in the initial interactive login shell, and your logins will
> be faster, and you will get the "right" (for those definitions
> of "right" which include intentional use of "bash" 8-)) shell
> when you shell out of "vi" or other programs.
You may also want to restrict it so that only interactive login sessions
cause bash to be invoked. To summarise:
if ( "$tty" != "" ) then
if ( -x /usr/local/bin/bash ) then
setenv SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash
exec /usr/local/bin/bash -login
endif
endif
(There may be a more elegant way to check for shell interactivity in csh, and
if there is I'd like to know about it, please. :-)
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