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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!handbag.tecc.co.uk!parody.tecc.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PC-keyboard config Date: 25 Jan 1996 22:03:43 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD box Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4e8unv$2sg@parody.tecc.co.uk> References: <4dgreq$82@wn.aksi.net> <4dk68m$4la@parody.tecc.co.uk> <4dkmgh$p8m@mark.ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost In article <4dkmgh$p8m@mark.ucdavis.edu>, David E. O'Brien <obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu> wrote: >James Raynard (james@parody.tecc.co.uk) wrote: >: >: To install bash on your system (assuming you have the ports distribution), > >Or even easier/faster if you have the Packages distribution (espically from True, it's just that I never use packages. In fact, I never use anyone else's binaries, but perhaps I'm just paranoid (or still recovering from some of the mis-configured ones that come with certain Linux distributions). >pkg_add /cdrom/packages/shells/bash-1.14.5.tgz >chpass -s /usr/local/bin/bash your_login_name Does the package installation update /etc/shells for you? If not, you may experience various mysterious problems such as not being able to ftp into your machine. James -- Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'