On Saturday 29 Mar 2014 16:41:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:07:22 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I don't think it's down to the shell, sysresccd includes bash too > > > AFAIR. > > > > Yes, bash is present, but root (superuser) has /bin/zsh as its shell in > > /etc/passwd, so bash scripts aren't run on login. > > Ah yes, I see what you mean. > > > > Aha, just found the proper documentation for it > > > http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Run_your_own_scripts_with_a > > > utorun> > > That looks interesting - thanks. First though I think I'll pursue > > getting my aliases, and unaliases, into zsh startup. Or is it simple to > > change root's login shell? It seems unlikely that simply > > editing /etc/passwd would do it. > > It is that simple. One of the first things I do on a new install is > sed -i s/bash/zsh/ /etc/passwd
I'll bear it in mind (until I forget - about 10 minutes, I expect). > Dropping the aliases into ~/.zshrc is the easy option, that way to get > your aliases and a superior shell. That's what I've done so far. I haven't noticed any difficulty running zsh without knowing it, so maybe I'll just leave it at that. Ta muchly. -- Regards Peter
