Joerg Pernfuss wrote:
/bin/sh is actually an ash. Minimal POSIX sh with a few additions that
don't help it anyway near a friendly shell for interactive use.
With set -o emacs or set -o vi, and the existence of job control, sh
is a perfectly adequate *root* shell, IMHO - though I'm a csh
Is there any particular reason why FreeBSD has csh as the
default root shell? Nothing really wrong with it except that I
quit using csh about twelve years ago and so am a little rusty
about the finer details when I come across a csh shell. On a
number of FreeBSD4.x systems, I used chsh
Martin McCormick wrote:
Is there any particular reason why FreeBSD has csh as the
default root shell? Nothing really wrong with it except that I
The stock answer is that bash is not guaranteed to be available,
as it is neither in the standard installation package, nor is it
on the /
On Thursday 19 October 2006 14:03, Martin McCormick wrote:
Is there any particular reason why FreeBSD has csh as the
default root shell? Nothing really wrong with it except that I
quit using csh about twelve years ago and so am a little rusty
about the finer details when I come across a
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:03:02AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
Is there any particular reason why FreeBSD has csh as the
default root shell? Nothing really wrong with it except that I
quit using csh about twelve years ago and so am a little rusty
about the finer details when I come
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:20:14AM -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
Martin McCormick wrote:
Is there any particular reason why FreeBSD has csh as the
default root shell? Nothing really wrong with it except that I
The stock answer is that bash is not guaranteed to be available,
as it is
RW writes:
There is an alternative uid 0 user called toor which you can use if you
want
to use bash as root. OTOH hand there is a school of thought that you
shouldn't be too comfortable as root.
My thanks to all. On all the systems in question, bash
ends up on the same partition as
Martin McCormick wrote:
One thing I was trying to accomplish is to have a bell in
the root prompt. In the .cshrc file is a string
set prompt=\007\!#
I have also tried replacing the \007 with the actual
Control-G and even a \a. All produce an attempt to render a bell
but
On 2006-10-19 11:48, Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RW writes:
There is an alternative uid 0 user called toor which you can use if you
want
to use bash as root. OTOH hand there is a school of thought that you
shouldn't be too comfortable as root.
My thanks to all. On
Alex Zbyslaw writes:
set prompt=hello%{^G%}there
where ^G is a single control char, not two chars.
Thanks. It works perfectly. I am reading the man for
tcsh again to attempt to figure out what I missed the first time.
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On 2006-10-19 15:30, Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alex Zbyslaw writes:
set prompt=hello%{^G%}there
where ^G is a single control char, not two chars.
Thanks. It works perfectly. I am reading the man for
tcsh again to attempt to figure out what I missed the first
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:03:02 -0500
Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any particular reason why FreeBSD has csh as the
default root shell? Nothing really wrong with it except that I
quit using csh about twelve years ago and so am a little rusty
about the finer details
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