On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 08:19, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 23:23, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> > 
> >>David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote:
> >>
> >>>your shell is stored in /etc/passwd as the las field.
> >>>
> >>>However, you can change that value by running the command
> >>>chsh
> >>>it will ask you for your passwd and then for the full path to the shell
> >>>executable
> >>>
> >>
> >><snip>
> >>
> >>That's odd, I can just type in "csh" or whatever shell I want and bam, 
> >>it switches. To get back, I just type exit.
> >>
> > 
> > That way you are just running a shell. But with chsh you change your
> > default shell, for the next session and forevermore, which is what I
> > think he was asking for, as he said that just typing the commands didnt
> > do what he expected.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Actually, he was asking about switching to csh/tcsh, I didn't see any 
> questions about permanancy, but I could be wrong.
> 

I could have understood it wrong, but here is what he did say.

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ls -a /bin shows both of them in there, but I though
typing either tcsh or csh would switch the shell.  
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