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From: NVangogh on 26 Aug 2008 09:53
in install, i tried to set bash as the login shell and got a error -only
sh?? whys this - why cant i simply use bash for eveything to do with
console?
if i can do like this then can you tell me how to do it cause i am a
learner on this.
From: Philip Paeps on 26 Aug 2008 09:57
NVangogh <NVangogh(a)artgallery.net> wrote:
> in install, i tried to set bash as the login shell and got a error -only
> sh?? whys this - why cant i simply use bash for eveything to do with
> console?

What exactly did you do and what exactly was the error?

> if i can do like this then can you tell me how to do it cause i am a
> learner on this.

This should do it:

pkg_add -r bash
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash

- Philip

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From: Drew Lawson on 26 Aug 2008 10:31
In article <pan.2008.08.26.13.53.04.484375(a)artgallery.net>
NVangogh <NVangogh(a)artgallery.net> writes:
>in install, i tried to set bash as the login shell and got a error -only
>sh?? whys this - why cant i simply use bash for eveything to do with
>console?

Philip already handled how (though you may also need to add bash
to /etc/shells). The main answer to why is that bash isn't part
of the base system. You can't specify that it is your shell until
after it is installed.

I just looked at my 7.0 system and only find bash in /usr/compat/linux/bin.
There's also a port for it, but I haven't had any reason to install it.

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From: Giorgos Keramidas on 26 Aug 2008 14:10
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:31:40 +0000 (UTC), drew(a)furrfu.invalid (Drew Lawson) wrote:
> In article <pan.2008.08.26.13.53.04.484375(a)artgallery.net>
> NVangogh <NVangogh(a)artgallery.net> writes:
>>in install, i tried to set bash as the login shell and got a error -only
>>sh?? whys this - why cant i simply use bash for eveything to do with
>>console?
>
> Philip already handled how (though you may also need to add bash to
> /etc/shells). The main answer to why is that bash isn't part of the
> base system. You can't specify that it is your shell until after it
> is installed.

Because nobody wants to go through the trouble of importing a snapshot
of bash in src/ *and* maintaining it as the upstream developers fix
bugs, add new features, update the documentation and so on. Installing
it from /usr/ports is so easy that it's not worth all the trouble :)

> I just looked at my 7.0 system and only find bash in
> /usr/compat/linux/bin. There's also a port for it, but I haven't had
> any reason to install it.

That is a Linux binary. It is used by the Linux compatibility shims,
and it is useful for running all the Linux scripts that assume bash
lives in /bin, but not for much else. If you want a native FreeBSD
version of bash, it's a better idea to pkg_add it.

From: Lars Eighner on 26 Aug 2008 15:02
In our last episode, <pan.2008.08.26.13.53.04.484375(a)artgallery.net>, the
lovely and talented NVangogh broadcast on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:

> in install, i tried to set bash as the login shell and got a error -only
> sh?? whys this - why cant i simply use bash for eveything to do with
> console?

You can, but you must install bash from the ports. Since bash is not
part of the core system, it may not be available in an emergency. For
that reason, it is best to use 'toor' as the bash-shell superuser (which
is the purpose of the toor account), so root retains csh as its shell for
emergency use. There is no reason other users should not use bash.

> if i can do like this then can you tell me how to do it cause i am a
> learner on this.

First install bash from /usr/ports/shells. Note: bash is installed in
/usr/local/bin.

If you want to change the shell for a large number of accounts, it may be
easier to edit master.passwd directly with vipw (change the environmental
variable EDITOR to a editor you are comfortable with first, if you do not
know vi). But if you are not familiar with this, it is safer to use chsh:
see the man page --- at least backup master.passwd first if you have never
edited it before.


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