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On Saturday 29 Mar 2014 16:41:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:07:22 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > I don't think it's down to the shell, sysresccd includes bash too |
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> > > AFAIR. |
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> > Yes, bash is present, but root (superuser) has /bin/zsh as its shell in |
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> > /etc/passwd, so bash scripts aren't run on login. |
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> Ah yes, I see what you mean. |
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> > > Aha, just found the proper documentation for it |
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> > > http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Run_your_own_scripts_with_a |
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> > > utorun> |
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> > That looks interesting - thanks. First though I think I'll pursue |
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> > getting my aliases, and unaliases, into zsh startup. Or is it simple to |
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> > change root's login shell? It seems unlikely that simply |
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> > editing /etc/passwd would do it. |
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> It is that simple. One of the first things I do on a new install is |
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> sed -i s/bash/zsh/ /etc/passwd |
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I'll bear it in mind (until I forget - about 10 minutes, I expect). |
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> Dropping the aliases into ~/.zshrc is the easy option, that way to get |
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> your aliases and a superior shell. |
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That's what I've done so far. I haven't noticed any difficulty running zsh |
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without knowing it, so maybe I'll just leave it at that. |
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Ta muchly. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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