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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-scm DOT com>
To: "'David Larsson (ERA)'" <David DOT Larsson AT era DOT ericsson DOT se>,
        "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: change default shell
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 22:03:40 +0200 
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Hi David,

try: exec tcsh
which also saves a process!

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David Larsson (ERA) [SMTP:David DOT Larsson AT era DOT ericsson DOT se]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 04, 2001 09:11
> To:	'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
> Subject:	RE: change default shell
> 
> I might be ignorant here but as far as I know, the only way to use tcsh as
> a login shell in cygwin, assuming you want to use your personalized
> environment, is to change your windows environment. Since I'm using W2k I
> ended up in my windows home directory, eg. C:\Documents and
> Settings\<USERNAME>. I didn't want to mix win and *nix setting and scripts
> so I had to come up with a different solution.
> 
> I solved this by using the standard bash login that ships with cygwin and
> then I call tcsh in the .bashrc file.
> 
> Works fine except I have to tap Ctrl+D twice to get out, not a big issue
> though.
> 
> ///David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Starks-Browning [mailto:starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk]
> Sent: den 3 juli 2001 13:15
> To: Sam C.
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: change default shell
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 3 Jul 01, Sam C. writes:
> > In linux, I could change the default shell to (say)
> > tcsh by changing the /etc/passwd file.
> > 
> > But I could not change the default shell to tcsh in
> > cygwin by editing the /etc/passwd. 
> 
> If you start Cygwin from the shortcut, then look at the shortcut
> properties.  You should be able to figure it out from there.
> 
> /etc/passwd is used by login/telnet/rlogin/ssh.  Not by the shortcut.
> 
> (One for the FAQ perhaps?)
> 
> David
> (Cygwin FAQ maintainer)
> 
> 
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