bash as default shell

[Mike Hoy]

$ .bashrc
-bash: /home/dio/.bashrc: Permission denied
dio at eutopia:~$ ls -l .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 dio mhoy06 30 2010-10-05 23:23 .bashrc


On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Mike Hoy <mhoy06 at gmail.com> wrote:
> $ 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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Mike Hoy