want dsl to boot into my own shell

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: want dsl to boot into my own shell
started by: Bilal

Posted by Bilal on June 14 2006,00:46

ok.. i plan to boot dsl to shell mode only and i know how to do that .. but how can i make it boot into a shell that i wrote?

thanks.

Posted by mikshaw on June 14 2006,02:11

Your shell is listed in /etc/passwd

Posted by Bilal on June 14 2006,15:45

the problem is that /etc/passwd doesnt get saved into configurations after i backup. so then next time i boot it will still run bash as default shell.

any suggestions?

Posted by clacker on June 14 2006,18:37

try adding /etc/passwd to /home/dsl/.filetool.lst and then backing up???

Posted by Bilal on June 14 2006,18:39

i will give that a try when im done with my shell.. basic basic functions..

peace

Posted by humpty on June 14 2006,19:00

it is explained in that 'Getting Started' page that dillo pops out for
every new user to dsl. (yeah, there's actually a good reason why
it does that).

Posted by mikshaw on June 14 2006,21:06

Before going through the trouble of adding a potentially broken passwd file to your backup, first try editing /etc/passwd and then log out. In default DSL you should automatically get logged back in, and your new shell should be in play. This is assuming that it is user 'dsl' who is getting the custom shell. I wouldn't recommend changing root's shell to a "basic basic" one you've made yourself unless you are an extremely awesome programmer =o)

Posted by Bilal on June 14 2006,23:04

great great , thanks a lot ..

peace

Posted by Bilal on June 14 2006,23:44

wow mike .. i wrote little program just to look like a prompt and did what u said and damn.. that thing went into infinit loop.. so yeah good point there..

peace