From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 11:17:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C20BF154FE for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:17:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA29200; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:30:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:30:19 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Adam Nealis Cc: Kevin Weiss , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is you favorite shell? In-Reply-To: <3727420F.39E539BA@csl.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Adam Nealis wrote: > Kevin Weiss wrote: > > > > same shells, which one do you think is best to use for: > > > > a normal user account? > > > > root? > > > > I use bash for my users, and csh for my root. I've heard many knocks > > against bash though...what do you think? > I wouldn't recommend csh for root - certainly not for shell > scripting either. Too limited. > > I have no problems with bash 2 as root user. Tho' I do make > sure it's copied into /bin as the default install is to > /usr/local/bin. *slap* *slap* is your /bin/bash statically linked? If not expect a hell of a time using it in single user mode. (no /usr/lib available) I see too many people coming from Linux thinking that this is _ok_ to do. It is NOT. Typing 'bash' after 'su' don't kill you. the 'local' subtree is there for a reason. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message