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Date:      Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:42:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      stheg olloydson <stheg_olloydson@yahoo.com>
To:        bent@munat.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tab completion
Message-ID:  <20050302044224.79955.qmail@web53904.mail.yahoo.com>

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it was said:

>I used vipw to set my regular user's shell to tcsh. /etc/passwd shows
it correct now but I still appear to be getting sh as my shell. If I
run tcsh, I then get the tab completion. But how do I get the terminal
to put me in tcsh automatically?
>
>Ben

Hello,

When you say "my shell," do you mean root's shell? If so, changing
root's shell is not a good idea. That's what the toor account is for.
(Let the bikeshedding begin!) If you mean your personal shell, try
running pwd_mkdb on /etc/passwd to see if that fixes the problem.

HTH,

stheg



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