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# 1  
Old 07-26-2010
CPU & Memory Change of shell in ubuntu
Hi all,


I am facing a situation here..
My default shell is BASH.
I have to change my shell from bash to ksh in ubuntu..
I have used chsh -s /bin/ksh. It doesn't work.


Is there any way to set or configure it..?
Please advice...Smilie
# 2  
Old 07-28-2010
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Hi,


geeks thanks for your reply..
but i tried all the stuff already of that link ,it didn't work..

please advice..
# 3  
Old 07-28-2010
From that link, ksh is at /usr/bin/ksh..

But your previous post says different path ? Have you checked that ?

Can you please take time to post further details of what you are doing ( with commands and error messages ?
# 4  
Old 07-31-2010
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Hi,

Thanks for the reply..
I tried again but Nope same result.
The shell exists in usr/bin/ksh in ubuntu.

But I tried to change from bash to ksh through this line:

$ chsh -s /usr/bin/ksh
its exit status is:- 0

But after that i use echo $SHELL: the o/p is same 'bash'.

I think there should be something wrong...
Smilie
# 5  
Old 07-31-2010
Hi you would have to do a new login to see the change. If chsh does not work, try:
Code:
usermod -s /usr/bin/ksh

If you only want to change the shell for one session, just type:
Code:
ksh

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