Re: [ProgSoc] Changing default shell on socs/progsoc

[Vik <vlrajews@nospam.acs.itd.uts.edu.au>]

<snip>
> 
> This is quoting heavily from the sys admin of the student accessable itd
> machines, francis:
> 
> 1) Not itd policy to change shells, the default is csh. Imagine
> 3000 users wanting their shells changed to bash, or tcsh just
> after they register their unix accounts, *nightmare*However, 
> 
> 2) If the user wants to run another shell, this can be attempted:
> 
> Place these lines in your .cshrc file somewhere:
> 
> if ( "$shell:t" == "csh" && -x /usr/bin/tcsh ) then
>         setenv SHELL /usr/bin/tcsh
>         exec $SHELL
> endif
> 
> Standard disclaimer: If it works, direct praise to Francis. If it doesn't,
> direct anger away from me :-)

I once had a similar setup running bash, but then when I tried logging in
to any of the lovely new sun's in 2.419 (via the graphical login), it just
didn't work; X would start running, then get me back to the login screen.
Removing the exec line from my .login solved the problem. Any ideas for a
workaround? something like if not $X then ...

Cheers,

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Victor Rajewski
vik@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au
http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~vik

`Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he
will pick himself up and continue on'
           - Winston Churchill, British statesman and writer (1874-1965)


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