Shells on Fedora

ryanortegarios · #1 20th January 2006, 01:30 PM

Hi.

I'm trying to use th Kshell or the Cshell on my FC2. I had readed that I can but I don't know how. Defoult shel in FC2 is Bash.

Regards.

mnisay · #2 20th January 2006, 02:56 PM

what does

/etc/shells

say?

you can change the default shell of a user by

chsh username

Spoon! · #3 20th January 2006, 09:41 PM

If they're not already installed:
C shell - install "tcsh" package
Korn shell - install "ksh" (FC4) or "pdksh" (FC1-3) package
Z shell - install "zsh" package

gavinw6662 · #4 21st January 2006, 04:53 AM

your login shell is determined by the /etc/passwd file - if you have other shells installed - you can edit that line and then you should be good to go.

***Firewing1*** · #5 21st January 2006, 04:54 AM

yum install system-config-users if it's not already installed
then run system-config-users, you can (via GUI) edit your login shells
Firewing1

ryanortegarios · #6 23rd January 2006, 12:07 PM

Thanks for you answer.

I follow your instrucction and verivy at /etc/shells. Actually my problem is to use the KSH. I does't have it. I read about PDKSH at http://www.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/ and obtain that. Now i need some help to install it in the right location and make it work as another shells.

I appreciate any other help.

markkuk · #7 23rd January 2006, 01:16 PM

"yum install ksh" will install ksh on your system. Not pdksh, but the real AT&T Korn Shell.

Spoon! · #8 23rd January 2006, 07:35 PM

I believe that FC2 (which the OP is using) uses pdksh instead of ksh; so "yum install pdksh"

ryanortegarios · #9 24th January 2006, 12:17 PM

gavinw6662

Thanks for your tip. I check it and modifyed my sheel.

Folks

I try tu use the YUM but I can't. yum --help out the help but when I execute the 'yum install pdksh' the answer is as follow:

$ yum install pdksh
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Error - /var/cache/yum/base/header.info cannot be found
Please ask your sysadmin to update the headers on this system.

I'm making a research on Internet but if you have any tips about this I appreciate your help.

brunson · #10 24th January 2006, 05:29 PM

If you do *any* amount of coding in ksh, I would recommend going to kornshell.com and getting the real AT&T korn shell from there. pdksh is a feeble attempt at the ksh-93 standard.

ryanortegarios · #11 14th February 2006, 12:11 AM

Thanks Brunson

I founs the KSH from the ATT page, but finally installed the FC4 and its came with KSH.

brunson · #12 14th February 2006, 05:05 AM

It's cool to see they're packaging the real deal now. :-)