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Re: shell


well, in the past i just typed bash and used it like an executable
but that gets rid of my nice prompt
well, i did use ypchpass -s bash mshobe1
and it said information changed
there were not immediate though as my shell has not yet changed; every
time i log back on i get tcsh 
i called systems and they said that it takes a couple of hours, i guess
i'll find out, but for the time being, if you want to change shells, you
must use one of the irix.gl systems to do it...

Mike

 On Tue,
29 Feb 2000, Peter Johansson wrote:

> Morty writes:
> 
> > The gl systems people disabled the ability to change shells some time
> > back, for assorted reasons.
> 
> In that case, you can always just manually run the shell you want
> until systems fixes things.  For example, if you want your shell to be
> tcsh, just run it on top of bash.  Or if you want to be nice, you
> could exec it which would save one process.
> 
> I suppose you could even do this in your .profile or .cshrc (depending
> on your durrent default) but you had better make sure that you only do
> this for interactive shells!  It's evil regardless, but it should
> work.
> 
> -p.
>