From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Apr 9 8: 7:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D46A37B68E for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 08:06:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA12378 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 17:09:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id RAA02968 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 17:05:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88E1A37B6B9; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 07:37:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA84797; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 16:36:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: Bob Bishop , obrien@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh References: <20000406134916.A23265@dragon.nuxi.com> <4.3.1.2.20000407094800.00ac2970@gid.co.uk> <20000409145013.O1996@daemon.ninth-circle.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 09 Apr 2000 16:36:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai's message of "Sun, 9 Apr 2000 14:50:13 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai writes: > I can see no technical reason to support either tcsh or csh as root's > shell. > > To substantiate: > > - I have gone through our system supplied scripts, and as far as I was > able to find, none of them were dependant on csh. Even if csh scripts > were present they should be rewritten for /bin/sh, in order to be as > consistent as possible with the rest of the system. My only comment to anyone who would even consider using csh for anything more elaborate than 'exec /bin/sh -E', particularly - god forbid! - for scripting, is: DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message