Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm trying to permanently change my
shell to zsh using chsh command, but it's not working.  zsh is
installed (via apt) and works fine when I invoke it directly
from a bash prompt terminal. But I can't get zsh to load in
terminals by default, and chsh is doing something weird:  $>
echo $SHELL $> which zsh $> chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh $> echo $SHELL
$> grep kurtosis /etc/passwd  It appears chsh has managed to
correctly change /etc/passwd, but not the $SHELL env variable.
As such, new terminals always start in bash and not zsh.  I'm
not sure where to look to troubleshoot this. .bashrc, even
though it's not invoked until the shell is specified? Any help
appreciated.  share|improve this question Cannot you change
shell after you re-logged in the system? –  vine_user Oct 2 '12
at 2:29 add comment  1 Answer  up vote 9 down vote accepted  You
need to log out again for these changes to take effect. The
shell defined in the /etc/passwd file is your login shell :-) So
you need to log in actually for