Re: How Switch To CSH Shell in RH?

[David Eduardo Gomez Noguera <davidgn servidor unam mx>]

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 23:23, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote:
> > your shell is stored in /etc/passwd as the las field.
> > 
> > However, you can change that value by running the command
> > chsh
> > it will ask you for your passwd and then for the full path to the shell
> > executable
> > 
> <snip>
> 
> That's odd, I can just type in "csh" or whatever shell I want and bam, 
> it switches. To get back, I just type exit.
> 
That way you are just running a shell. But with chsh you change your
default shell, for the next session and forevermore, which is what I
think he was asking for, as he said that just typing the commands didnt
do what he expected.