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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New User Admin Date: 3 Jan 1996 03:51:43 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4ccugf$pse@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4caoal$bpa@news2.realtime.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <4caoal$bpa@news2.realtime.net>, Dave Brown <dhbrown@bga.com> wrote: >First, since I never liked the c-shell, I downloaded the bash port and >compiled it. Okay, so now, I want to make bash my login shell. I change >that in field 6 of the /etc/passwd file and guess what... c-shell is still >the login shell... huh? You edited the wrong file, not probably having had much experience with shadow password databases. You should use the `vipw' command to make this change. >Next question is, I put a .profile in my home directory. Well, it isn't >read on log-in. Huh? What's your shell currently set to? Bash itself uses a .bash_profile file for .login functionality (e.g. if you want to also suck in your $HOME/.bashrc file on logins, you need to do so explicitly in .bash_profile) ><Also, why is it that the FreeBSD boot manager doesn't recognize the Linux >partition? It gives a F? for the Linux partition, F2 for FreeBSD, and F3 If it was bootable, I'm not sure why not. I would have certainly expected it to! There is code in the BOOTEASY manager to detect Linux partitions, and the only thing I can think of is that there were radically differing ideas of "geometry" going on between the different OSes. Jordan