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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!news.uni-mainz.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New User Admin Date: 2 Jan 1996 22:44:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4cccg1$gsc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4caoal$bpa@news2.realtime.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 dhbrown@bga.com (Dave Brown) writes: > 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? /etc/passwd is a dummy, comparable to AIX, for example. Use vipw(8) or chsh(1) to change your shell. RTFM passwd(5) if you wanna know about the details. > Next question is, I put a .profile in my home directory. Well, it isn't > read on log-in. Huh? As you wrote: you're still using a C-shell. csh reads ~/.login at login time, and ~/.cshrc at each invocation. (The latter function- ality has no real equivalent in standard Bourne-alike shells. I think, bash has it though.) > <Also, why is it that the FreeBSD boot manager doesn't recognize the Linux > partition? No idea for this. I don't know what a boot manager is. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)