[27673] in Athena Bugs
Fwd: Debathena: feature request: zsh shell
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Kaduk)
Fri Sep 12 22:21:15 2014
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:21:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, Aaron L Zeng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just meant that I'd like to see zsh installed to be run manually. I
> currently have the following lines in my ~/.bashrc:
> if [ -e /bin/zsh ]; then
> exec /bin/zsh
> Fi
>
> Having it as a new logon shell is beyond the scope of my original intent.
> Hope this is a little clearer.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aaron Zeng
>
> On 12.09.14, 22:01, "Benjamin Kaduk" <kaduk@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, a2z@mit.edu wrote:
> >
> >> 1) What were you trying to do?
> >>
> >> Set my default login shell to zsh.
> >>
> >> 3) What should have happened?
> >>
> >> It would be nice if zsh were installed.
> >
> >Can you clarify whether you wish for zsh to be installed at all, versus
> >being available as a logon shell?
> >
> >Adding a new logon shell for Athena represents a fair amount of work, as
> >the Athena environment is expected to provide a great deal of
> >shell-related functionality (e.g., sourcing .environment at the right
> >time, running several checks on startup and possibly displaying
> >diagnostics, providing the add shell alias and similar, etc..), and we
> >have not had anyone working on Debathena with sufficient zsh experience to
> >ensure that all the necessary functionality gets ported over.
> >
> >We do occasionally have people ask about getting pieces of the Athena
> >functionality for their local use of zsh, and we usually don't hear any
> >complaints after we point them at the bash dotfiles, so maybe there is not
> >too much work involved; I just don't know.
> >
> >Just adding the zsh package to the system so that it is available to be
> >run manually is comparatively much easier.
> >
> >> 4) Does this problem happen only on this workstation, or other
> >>workstations?
> >>
> >> All of them, but not athena.dialup.mit.edu
> >
> >It looks like zsh is explicitly installed on the dialups as part of the
> >process for creating dialups, so that is expected. (I am not sure, but
> >possibly there was some course software that wanted zsh available which
> >would have provided impetus to install it.)
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Ben Kaduk
>
>
