Hi, Wasn't Angelyn asking about the prompt rather than the shell binary itself? Is the answer just PS1="shell prompt pattern"? export PS1
Mark On 2/8/06, Radoulov, Dimitre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There are some historical reasons (which may no longer be valid) why it > > would be better not to change the shell for the root login, and I > believe > > you may > > have inadvertently discovered one of them. (I'm working from memory > > here; > > no Solaris system in front of me) Csh is (or was) not located in the > > same > > directory as sh. Sysadmins would change /bin/sh to /bin/csh in the > > /etc/passwd > > file, and the system wouldn't be able to find the desired login shell. > > Moreover, the location of csh is (or was) on a separate partition, for > > those > > systems not using a monolithic mount of the OS, so in cases where the > > file system > > had problems, the system might even come up without the > desired directory > > mounted, making it impossible for root to get into the system at all. > > > > Make sure you do a "which csh" to ascertain the correct directory. > > In addition: > > http://home.comcast.net/~j.p.h/cus-faq-2.html#15 > > > Regards, > Dimitre > > > _______________________________________________ > Solaris-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users > _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users
