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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!realtime.net!usenet From: dhbrown@bga.com (Dave Brown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: New User Admin Date: 2 Jan 1996 07:53:57 GMT Organization: DBAssociates Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4caoal$bpa@news2.realtime.net> Reply-To: dhbrown@bga.com NNTP-Posting-Host: jake-5m.ip.realtime.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-RTcode: 34f71af13095864b94e8e481 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 I just got my FreeBSD up and really running; (well, it still does see the CDROM, but I'll work on that). I'm finding some really unexpected differences between BSD and SysV/AIX/Linux... First, since I never liked the c-shell, I downloaded the bash port and compiled it. Okay, so now, I want to make bash my login shell. I change that in field 6 of the /etc/passwd file and guess what... c-shell is still the login shell... huh? Next question is, I put a .profile in my home directory. Well, it isn't read on log-in. Huh? This is going to be tougher than I thought. <Also, why is it that the FreeBSD boot manager doesn't recognize the Linux partition? It gives a F? for the Linux partition, F2 for FreeBSD, and F3 for DOS --which I just made for installing the FreeBSD. I had to go back and install lilo... (good thing I had a boot disk to get back to my Linux partition).> -- Dave Brown Austin, TX