bash as default shell

[Mike Hoy]

$ cat /etc/passwd | grep "bash"
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
mhoy06:x:1000:1000:mike hoy,,,:/home/mhoy06:/bin/bash
dio:x:1001:1000:dio,,,:/home/dio:/bin/bash

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Mike Hoy <mhoy06 at gmail.com> wrote:
> $ .bashrc
> -bash: /home/dio/.bashrc: Permission denied
>
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I could be wrong about this but I think it explains your quandry.  See
>> below:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Mike Hoy <mhoy06 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> my hard drive has /home on a different partition
>>> it was failing fsck and to simplify I backed up my /home contents to a
>>> backup hdd and then set it up again
>>>
>>> how to I use 'bash' when /etc/shells already shows me using /bin/bash?
>>>
>>> vim /home/dio/.bashrc
>>> alias clearl="clear && ls -l"
>>> ~$ clearl
>>> -bash: clearl: command not found
>>> in terminal
>>
>> Since you did not source your new .bashrc, your current shell does not know
>> about the change.  You needed to do ". .bashrc" without the quotes.
>>>
>>> ~$ echo $SHELL
>>> /bin/bash
>>>
>>> so I change to bash anyway:
>>> ~$ bash
>>> ~$ clearl  (works fine)
>>
>> Since you started a new shell with explicitly running bash, that bash
>> re-initialized and saw your alias so it worked.
>>>
>>> I've done this:
>>>
>>> chsh -s /bin/bash
>>> password ***
>>> no luck
>>
>> This is less clear what all you did in between, but if you are still in the
>> original terminal and its shell, you still have not re-sourced .bashrc for
>> that running shell
>>>
>>> but I can type bash manually and I'm goold
>>>
>>> ~$ echo $PATH
>>>
>>> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/dio/sh:/home/dio/
>>>
>>>
>>> cat ~/.bashrc
>>> alias clearl="clear && ls -l"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mike Hoy
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>>
>>
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>> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>>
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