This page https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-get-started-with-freebsd-10-1 suggests that on login, I’ll be presented with the tcsh prompt. However, the droplet is defaulting to csh.
I can locate tcsh under /bin/tcsh but using setenv in my local .cshrc file doesn’t cause this shell to be used on next login.
How and where can I set tcsh as my default please?
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You are actually using tcsh, it is the improved version of csh:
shasum /bin/tcsh /bin/csh 74d4129fb4604baf8f272e9d4a4f1be80c89be5b /bin/tcsh 74d4129fb4604baf8f272e9d4a4f1be80c89be5b /bin/csh
Use vipw to edit /etc/master.passwd and select the shell you want
Alternative includes: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/shells.html
if that is the case, why does Env report the shell as sh and why isn’t the prompt a > ?
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