Re: How Switch To CSH Shell in RH?

[Joseph A Nagy Jr <joseph_a_nagy_jr charter net>]

David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote:
> 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.

Actually, he was asking about switching to csh/tcsh, I didn't see any 
questions about permanancy, but I could be wrong.

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