From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id BAA11771 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 01:20:49 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA05517; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 11:08:53 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 11:06:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 08:05:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Welland X-Sender: mwelland@pdx201 To: Users Zsh Subject: Re: ftp blocked In-Reply-To: <199607181433.QAA11051@claymore.fukt.hk-r.se> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-ID: <"6soQr3.0.bL1.pBbxn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/309 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu A work-around if you can't get the sysadmin to add zsh to /etc/shells is to have, as the last statement executed in the users .cshrc, (.kshrc ...) something like "setenv SHELL /usr/bin/zsh". As for dotfile, I haven't seen one but there is a push to develop more. It sure would be nice. On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Andy `Flognat' Eskilsson wrote: > The problem probably lies in your OS, ftp only accepts logins > with shells in /etc/shells, solaris 2.x is one of these. > > What you have to do is easy (if you are root of course ;-) is > to add /usr/local/bin/zsh (or wherever it is) to the /etc/shells > file. > > /Andy >