On Wednesday 19 January 2005 15:22, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 02:32:41PM +0000, RW wrote:
> > It's recommended that you stick to shells in /bin for root, and tcsh is > > the best of these. For non-root account you have more choice, bash and > > ksh are popular. > > This is true enough. If you really want to use a different shell, then > you could probably write a conditional test to go in the default shell's > startup files. For example, to run bash, put a conditional test in > .cshrc to check that bash can be invoked without errors. If so, exec() > it. If not, then just continue with csh. Voila. You have a bash shell, > without having to change root's default shell. I am afraid I can't help > with the syntax, as I don't use csh. I don't really know whether that's safe. There was a long discussion about this recently and it was not about root being left shellless if /usr doesn't mount (in single user mode the default is sh anyway). There was a specific problem in the ports list that was tracked down to the someone not using a shell in /bin (and copying another shell to /bin is just as bad, unless it's statically linked). I didn't follow it in any detail - I decided it was just better to stick to tcsh for root. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
