On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 06:33:08AM +0100, Nicolas Pierron wrote: > Hi Linus, > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 03:37, Linus Arver <linusar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 02:42:03PM -0800, Linus Arver wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:35:01AM +0100, Nicolas Pierron wrote: > >> > Hi Linus, > >> > > >> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 22:44, Linus Arver <linusar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 07:00:29PM +0100, Nicolas Pierron wrote: > >> > chsh does not work if you reference your user inside NixOS > >> > configuration file, the reason is that each time you boot, NixOS > >> > activation script will update /etc/passwd file with the list of users > >> > and shells. But you can update your shell inside your > >> > configuration.nix file. Have a look at one module of my > >> > configurations: > >> > > >> > https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/configurations/trunk/misc/nicolas.b.pierron/common/user.nix > >> > >> Thanks for this. I adapted the > >> > >> users.extraUsers = [ > >> { name = "nicolas"; > >> uid = 1000; > >> group = "users"; > >> extraGroups = [ "wheel" "share" ]; > >> description = "Nicolas Pierron"; > >> home = "/home/nicolas"; > >> shell = pkgs.zsh + "/bin/zsh"; > >> } > >> ]; > >> > >> users.extraGroups = [ > >> { name = "share"; > >> gid = 1001; > >> } > >> ]; > >> > >> environment.systemPackages = [ > >> pkgs.zsh > >> ]; > > > > I just wanted to point out to future zsh users for NixOS that using the > > above setting will work if you are inside an X process, because the bash > > shell that runs the X stuff sources /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile for all > > the right global system PATHs (see > > /etc/nixos/nixos/modules/programs/bash/bash.nix). But if you log in from > > a virtual console tty (e.g., CTRL+ALT+F1), or if you SSH in, your zsh > > won't source the abovementioned files, resulting in an unusable shell. > > What I did on my server was to add the following lines in /etc/zshenv file. > > emulate bash > alias shopt=false > . /etc/profile > unalias shopt > emulate zsh
Every day, I learn something new. Thanks. -Linus _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev