[15535] in Athena Bugs
Re: chsh core dumps...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sat Sep 27 19:57:14 1997
To: Jon Solomon <jsol@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [15534]
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 27 Sep 1997 19:57:10 -0400
<jsol@MIT.EDU> (Jon Solomon) writes:
> % chsh jsol bash
> core dumps.
Some comments here:
Athena (Moira) chsh is documented as taking only zero or one
arguments; while it shouldn't dump core given more, you should be
aware that it probably won't expect an additional argument to name a
shell.
At any rate, it does want a full path to a shell; to start bash
directly, you should set your shell to either
/afs/athena/project/gnu/bin/bash or /afs/sipb/project/bash/bash.
(Other paths also point to bash, but those two are listed in
/etc/shells on the dialups, so if you set your shell to one of those
you can ftp to ftp.dialup.mit.edu.)
However, using a shell in AFS will increase the probability that AFS
problems will prevent you from logging in; it is more reliable to set
your shell to /bin/sh and then find and start bash. You can see my
dotfiles (which are world-readable) for an example of how to do this.
--
Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
