From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 15:40:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA19690 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:40:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA19642 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:39:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA16843; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:39:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:39:12 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: MDM , FreeBSD Support Subject: Re: ld.so and emacs problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Doug White wrote: > I would HIGHLY recommend changing root back to sh; you won't be able to > log in if your /usr partition disappears, while a static version of sh is > in /bin. You should use su instead of logging in as root. I'm glad to report this isn't the case -- my root shell is /usr/bin/tcsh, but when I start up in single-user mode FreeBSD defaults to sh. > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > Ben