On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:19:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > isn't the "main reason" because other shells may reside on a filesystem > > which isn't necessarily mounted in maintenance/single user mode? Or, > > libraries > > for the same? > > -- > > Jim Pazarena [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Just link the shell of your choice statically and put it somewhere in /. > Problem solved. Why doesn't FreeBSD ship bash and other shells besides > the `sh' linked statically is beyond me. It wouldn't break ports, would > it?
It does break ports. Very, very badly. I know because I've personally attempted replacing /bin/sh with bash as a "I have a weekend to spare" project. The topic of bringing bash into BSD as /bin/sh has been discussed in the past many, many times. It's always a heated discussion. We went through the same thing discussing bringing tcsh in (remember, /bin/csh is tcsh). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"