switching terminal to bash

JumpMaster

JumpMaster

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My comp came with 10.2 istalled and when 10.3 came out I upgraded, as such i'm still stuck with tcsh...

so my question is how to a switch /usr/bin/login to launch bash as the default shell?
 
go to your user account in applications/utilities/netinfomanager.app
change it from tcsh to bash
logout then back in
 
the prefs thing doens't work because i wanted to keep it executing /usr/bin/login, but the NetInfo works. thanks again

damn NetInfo... wonderful in the end but painful for migration from NetBSD...
 
cfleck said:
can't you just run chsh in the terminal?
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It looks like the 10.3 version of chsh properly handles the netinfo database (as opposed to operating on /etc/passwd), so the answer is a qualified yes: you have to be able to use vi well enough to edit the config info it gives you. Heh.
 
davidbrit2 said:
It looks like the 10.3 version of chsh properly handles the netinfo database (as opposed to operating on /etc/passwd), so the answer is a qualified yes: you have to be able to use vi well enough to edit the config info it gives you. Heh.
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i use vi exclusively - i cannot fathom why anyone would use
emacs or pico( or course, i never have, so maybe i am missing something?)
 
Or
setenv EDITOR whateveryouwant
in (t)csh

or
export EDITOR=whateveryouwant
in (ba)sh

before you run commands like chsh, that execute the EDITOR command
 
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