Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 14:39:13 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Per Hedeland <per@hedeland.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shell Message-ID: <20200630143913.e27eb3e3.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <a590654c-ffa2-3171-ce44-ae3f33214b14@hedeland.org> References: <CY4PR19MB010400AC4940C67421BFADE8F96E0@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <DB8PR06MB6442289C119C69BDF4303E72F66F0@DB8PR06MB6442.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> <20200630104317.812dce86b2dc5ea5a42a1ee1@sohara.org> <a590654c-ffa2-3171-ce44-ae3f33214b14@hedeland.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 13:27:58 +0200, Per Hedeland wrote: > On 2020-06-30 11:43, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 14:44:34 +0530 > > Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > >> It is often unnoticed that FreeBSD has a mirror of the root user > >> appropriately named toor (whose shell can be anything). > > > > Traditionally root ran /bin/csh and toor ran /bin/sh to keep both > > BSD and AT&T trained sysadmins happy, it really doesn't matter what login > > shell root uses at work we use zsh, at home I use bash but you could even > > use mc or vshnu. > > > > However the OP was concerned about the prompt (which many people > > have correctly said involves setting PS1) rather than the shell. > > Yes, PS1 is what to set for /bin/sh and its relatives (e.g. bash, > zsh), but it has no effect for csh/tcsh - there you need to set > 'prompt' (and the "formatting sequences" are also different). And it > seems the OP was primarily interested in root's prompt (i.e. csh by > default). The first message says that the prompt character is $, which would not be the case (per default) if the C shell was chosen; so the case probably is related to "shell changed from C shell to sh", rather than "the dog ate my configuration files". ;-) The command to use here is "chsh". -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20200630143913.e27eb3e3.freebsd>