[luau] Changing shells

al plant webmaster at hawaiidakine.com
Thu Jul 11 16:57:00 PDT 2002


Jon Reynolds wrote:
> 
> I have a freebsd4.6 box and when it boots it automagically goes into the csh
> shell. I installed bash1 and want it to be the default systemwide shell.
> Where would I make the change for this? I have been looking around and found
> how to do it for users but not systemwide. I have a command in my
> /etc/rc.local that won't start using the csh shell I get an 'ambiguous
> output redirect' message. When I switch over to sh and run the same command
> it works just fine. But I need this command to start at system bootup time.
> Any ideas?
> 
> Jon
> 
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If you selected BASH in the adding shells feature in the
/stand/sysinstall when FreeBSD was installed it should be there.

Try typing bash at the command prompt of the user and see if that
switches to a bash shell for you.

I use tcsh on the boxes here but it should be the same install for bash. 
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