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From: pete@northstar89 (Peter Robert Schmitt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tcsh
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Date: 31 May 89 20:17:54 GMT
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In article <6622@xyzzy.UUCP> duncan@rtp48.dg.com (W. Lee Duncan) writes:
>In article <3693@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd) writes:
>Note that the shell names that chsh(1) will accept are *compiled in*!
>So, if it won't take your requests to change your shell talk to your
>system administrator.  He/She can either (1) just edit the /etc/passwd
>file (assuming a non-YP system, of course), or (2) if source for
>chsh(1) is around, update/recompile it.


Nope, the valid shells are in a text file called /etc/shells.  Just add a line
to that file (your sysadmin has to do it most probably) that points to where
your tcsh is located.