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Date:      Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:52:53 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org, Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Subject:   Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000416005253.darius@dons.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <20000415095048.D87742@daemon.ninth-circle.org>

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On 15-Apr-00 Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
>>I think 'default shell for a "user"' is a very weak argument since when
>>you make an account (with pw, vipw, sysinstall, etc) you can trivially
>>change the shell.. I don't give new users sh, its umm, yucky :)

> Then according to your own statement, you would have to visit ports
> first before even giving your users a choice.  Which in turns supports
> the fact that having either csh or tcsh in the base system is not the
> way to go.

True, but this has nothing to do with the fact that I would like tcsh to be the
default shell when I freshly install FreeBSD.

I would settle for a knob in sysinstall which did it :)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum




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