From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 19 02:55:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222CA16A403 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:55:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEDFE43D55 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:55:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend3.internal (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85E8DA7B8C for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:55:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.internal ([10.202.2.160]) by frontend3.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:55:42 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: Bpr4W24Qhst47BzxemAvTon7VHdLi70nIqc3zQWFvxwR 1158634542 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28BAD14DFC for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:55:41 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:55:33 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609190355.35277.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: csh as default root Shell X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:55:43 -0000 On Tuesday 19 September 2006 03:34, jekillen wrote: > Hello; > Since I have been advised by way of correspondence with UUASC (Unix > Users of Association of Southern California) > that changing the root shell in FreeBSD is not advised and I have two > machines up and running and a third on the > way, I have purchased a text from (I don't know if it is appropriate > for this list to mention the publisher by name but > it is closely connected to the publisher of Absolute BSD). > Has anyone any comments regarding this text based on familiarity (Using > Csh and Tcsh). I noticed the publication > date is 1995. It's a manual of sorts, I'll read it before stumbling > around on lists for answers to awk ward questions. IIRC csh *is* the default root shell. What you shouldn't do is set a shell installed from packages as the root shell, such as bash.