Terry Lambert on 2001-08-11 (Sat) at 12:47:01 -0700:
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
As to Jason's situation, I also like to use bash as my shell
even when I am root. However, I do not want to muck around with
the port for 'bash', or do anything else to move where bash is
or how it's built. So, the way I decided to handle it was to
add the following lines in the /root/.login file:
if ( -x /usr/local/bin/bash ) then
# echo Switching to bash
exec /usr/local/bin/bash -login
endif
So, strictly speaking /bin/csh is still the default shell for
root, but the effect for me is that I automatically get bash
whenever I log in. This seems to work fine for me, and I am
not aware of any problems which have been caused by this trick
in the few years that I have been using it.
Add setenv SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash, and only do your trick
in the initial interactive login shell, and your logins will
be faster, and you will get the right (for those definitions
of right which include intentional use of bash 8-)) shell
when you shell out of vi or other programs.
You may also want to restrict it so that only interactive login sessions
cause bash to be invoked. To summarise:
if ( $tty != ) then
if ( -x /usr/local/bin/bash ) then
setenv SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash
exec /usr/local/bin/bash -login
endif
endif
(There may be a more elegant way to check for shell interactivity in csh, and
if there is I'd like to know about it, please. :-)
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