[Hampshire] Changing my shell...?

2011-10-29 Thread Owain Clarke
Hi all. Have started using Mint on my Desktop. When I press the up arrow in a terminal I get "^[[A". I assume it's because it isn't Bash, because if I type bash it then starts behaving what I think of as properly. I've searched on the web but I can't express my

Re: [Hampshire] Changing my shell...?

2011-10-29 Thread Vic
terms clearly enough to get a good answer. So I wander if someone could help me to set things up so that any terminal on any user defaults to Bash The shell for each user is defined in /etc/passwd - just edit that to set up the shell you want. Defaults for new users can be

Re: [Hampshire] Changing my shell...?

2011-10-29 Thread Owain Clarke
On 29/10/11 14:25, Vic wrote: The shell for each user is defined in /etc/passwd - just edit that to set up the shell you want. Defaults for new users can be set up by editing /etc/default/useradd . HTH Vic. Great - thank you very much, Vic -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web

Re: [Hampshire] Changing my shell...?

2011-10-29 Thread Ian Grody
vipw to edit passwd file properly, / etc/shells are the available ones and /etc/skel* are skeleton files for default env for new user shells. When you adduser you get to choose what shell Owain Clarke simb...@cooptel.net wrote: On 29/10/11 14:25, Vic wrote: The shell for each user is defined

Re: [Hampshire] Changing my shell...?

2011-10-29 Thread Owain Clarke
On 29/10/11 14:50, Ian Grody wrote: vipw to edit passwd file properly, / etc/shells are the available ones and /etc/skel* are skeleton files for default env for new user shells. When you adduser you get to choose what shell Thanks -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web