From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 14 20:19:23 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A69C16A418 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:19:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-30.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-30.bluehost.com [69.89.17.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0FE313C459 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:19:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 13674 invoked by uid 0); 14 Dec 2007 20:19:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by mailproxy2.bluehost.com with SMTP; 14 Dec 2007 20:19:22 -0000 Received: from c-24-9-123-251.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.123.251] helo=demeter.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J3H0E-0006Z5-CS for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:19:22 -0700 Received: from demeter.hydra (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lBEKJKNh024101 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:19:20 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (from ren@localhost) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id lBEKJJ3v024100 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:19:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) X-Authentication-Warning: demeter.hydra: ren set sender to perrin@apotheon.com using -f Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:19:19 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071214201919.GC23649@demeter.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20071214010542.GA19553@demeter.hydra> <20071213192131.Y7985@wonkity.com> <20071214070941.GD20150@demeter.hydra> <20071214142628.4ef75102@gumby.homeunix.com.> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071214142628.4ef75102@gumby.homeunix.com.> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.net} {sentby:bopbeforesmtp 24.9.123.251 authed with apotheon.com} X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - box183.bluehost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - apotheon.com Subject: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful. 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: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:19:23 -0000 On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:26:28PM +0000, RW wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:09:41 -0700 > Chad Perrin wrote: > > > Hmm -- fair answer. I was kind of thinking that on FreeBSD I should > > maybe do such work in csh as the standard shell, but it occurs to me > > that I'd probably be pretty hard-pressed to find a FreeBSD system > > without sh on it. > > csh isn't the standard shell, it's just the default login shell for > root. All of the installed shell scripts are for sh, and the > sysinstall default for ordinary users is sh. > > I think it's just the case that sysinstall doesn't have normal user > setup page for the root account, so it's sets a sensible default shell > for interactive use. Thanks for clarifying that point. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Kent Beck: "I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby."