[Gllug] bash startup

Simon Stewart sms at lateral.net
Thu Nov 1 17:30:15 UTC 2001


On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 12:10:58PM -0500, SteveC wrote:
> Having installed the bash package for FreeBSD I put /usr/local/bin/bash  
> for my shell in the passwd entry, and /usr/local/bin/bash also appears in 
> /etc/shells but bash never comes up, I get sh instead. bash is runnable 
> from sh.
> 
> Any idea why it wouldn't start? Can't see anything in the logs...

Is the path you've put to bash in /etc/passwd the same as that given
in /etc/shells?

Cheers,

Simon

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