Hi all,

Starting Nov 7, a number of the jobs I would run through Toolforge grid have stopped working. Each job consists of a .sh file like this on the first line of which I use the source command to activate a python virtual environment. When I run source by hand, subsequent lines work. But when I call the .sh file and it tries to run the source command, I get a "source: not found" message, the virtual environment does not get activated and indeed running which python returns /usr/bin/python which is bad. All my scripts depend on pip packages that are installed in the virtual env and not available with the system python.

The main thing I did on Nov 7 was to add a line at the end of my too's account's .bash_profile as below:

exec zsh

This is because when I manually log into toolforge, I would like zsh to be my shell, and since tool accounts don't support chsh, I thought executing zsh directly from bash would be okay. But apparently, that now breaks the source command somehow.

So I wonder:

(a) Is there a way to properly change the default shell of tool accounts?

(b) Is there a way to make source work under zsh?

Importantly, I know the problem is with exec zsh because once I removed it and logged out and back in, all scripts worked correctly.

Thanks,

Huji