[Nix-dev] some basic questions from a new NixOS user

[Nicolas Pierron]

Hi Linus,

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 03:37, Linus Arver <linusarver at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 02:42:03PM -0800, Linus Arver wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:35:01AM +0100, Nicolas Pierron wrote:
>> > Hi Linus,
>> >
>> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 22:44, Linus Arver <linusarver at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 07:00:29PM +0100, Nicolas Pierron wrote:
>> > chsh does not work if you reference your user inside NixOS
>> > configuration file, the reason is that each time you boot, NixOS
>> > activation script will update /etc/passwd file with the list of users
>> > and shells.  But you can update your shell inside your
>> > configuration.nix file.  Have a look at one module of my
>> > configurations:
>> >
>> > https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/configurations/trunk/misc/nicolas.b.pierron/common/user.nix
>>
>> Thanks for this. I adapted the
>>
>>   users.extraUsers = [
>>     { name = "nicolas";
>>       uid = 1000;
>>       group = "users";
>>       extraGroups = [ "wheel" "share" ];
>>       description = "Nicolas Pierron";
>>       home = "/home/nicolas";
>>       shell = pkgs.zsh + "/bin/zsh";
>>     }
>>   ];
>>
>>   users.extraGroups = [
>>     { name = "share";
>>       gid = 1001;
>>     }
>>   ];
>>
>>   environment.systemPackages = [
>>     pkgs.zsh
>>   ];
>
> I just wanted to point out to future zsh users for NixOS that using the
> above setting will work if you are inside an X process, because the bash
> shell that runs the X stuff sources /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile for all
> the right global system PATHs (see
> /etc/nixos/nixos/modules/programs/bash/bash.nix). But if you log in from
> a virtual console tty (e.g., CTRL+ALT+F1), or if you SSH in, your zsh
> won't source the abovementioned files, resulting in an unusable shell.

What I did on my server was to add the following lines in /etc/zshenv file.

emulate bash
alias shopt=false
. /etc/profile
unalias shopt
emulate zsh


-- 
Nicolas Pierron
http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasbpierron - http://nbp.name/