Re: Bash with X11
Re: Bash with X11
- Subject: Re: Bash with X11
- From: magenta <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 22:57:09 -0800
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 10:47:18PM -0800, magenta wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 07:36:24AM +0100, Oliver Kurlvink wrote:
> > Am Montag, 03.02.03 um 01:42 Uhr schrieb magenta:
> >
> > > On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 06:21:45PM -0600, Preston Black wrote:
> > >> Is there a way to use bash instead of tcsh with xterm?
> > >>
> > >
> > > From the commandline, just run 'chsh' to change your default login
> > > shell.
> >
> > this does not work (for me). i had to use netinfo manager and do a
> > relogin. but i did not test whether chsh with a following relogin does
> > work :).
>
> chsh should take effect as soon as you open a new terminal. Note that chsh
> is usually setup to only let you use "known good" shells, so if bash is
> installed in, say, /usr/local (or just plain isn't listed in /etc/shells)
> chsh probably won't let you set your shell to it, typically to prevent the
> case that you accidentally set your shell to something you don't want.
> (One time when I was an undergrad I had to help someone who had somehow
> accidentally set her shell to ghostscript!)
My bad. At least under Linux, chsh doesn't take effect until completely
logging out. I guess the shell inherits from the parent process.
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