Re: LUG: newbie ish question (.bashrc on eos?) - Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:39:04 -0500

If you log in and get a tcsh shell and then run bash at the prompt, these files will be sourced and you will have a familiar bash prompt. Not sure that this can be done automatically yet. At least when I tried it didn't work.

We are working to try to get this fixed and also make it possible so that students would get bash as the default shell instead of tcsh. Or at least be able to choose bash as an option. Hopefully we can make some progress on this front in the spring semester. (I spoke with one of the sysadmins about this very topic last week at lunch) Perhaps there could be a web page a student could choose a shell in as the command line tool (E.G. Red Hat's chsh command) does not work with our environment for technical reasons.

Gary Gatling | ITECS Systems

ITECS, BOX 7901 | Operations and Systems Analyst

NCSU, Raleigh, NC | Email: gsgatlin@ncsu.[redacted]

27695-7901 | Phone: (XXX) 513-4572 (5C Page Hall)

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Alex Ray < alexjray.ncsu@gmail.[redacted] > wrote:

double check your shell. NCSU accounts default to tcsh. Use that RC file, or change your default shell.

Cheers

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Stephen Smith < smsmit18@ncsu.[redacted] > wrote:

Hey all,
I'm trying to set up some .bashrc aliases on my eos directory. Is this possible? I can obviously create the file in my home directory and put bunches of lovely stuffs in there, but I can't get the aliases to 'activate'. Any help would be appreciated. I can alias one line at a time, but I think they go away when I log out.
-Stephen

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