[SlugLUG] I need some UCSC network-guru help

[Ignacio Solis]

* Erich Blume (eblume at ucsc.edu) said:
> Thanks, I'll give this a shot!

I assume your reply was public.

> > Another alternative is to use the same shell they give you, then write a
> > little script that will change shells to the one you want. That way you
> > won't have these problems and you can select the shell based on the system
> > you log into, from, at, when, etc.
> 
> That's what I was using at first, and it worked fine, but I was tired of
> having to type "exit" twice to logout. Since /bin/bash is an interactive
> shell, typing "logout" just returns an error, along the lines of "this is not
> a login shell".

That's because you were probably just running the shell. What you should have
done is "exec /bin/bash", problem solved. You can go back to being lazy and not
typing exit (or hitting control-D) twice.

Nacho

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