From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Apr 15 8:24:36 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 96C5637B702 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:24:23 -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 RAA20980 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:24:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id RAA12406 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:24:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8873137B702; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:23:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darius@guppy.dons.net.au) Received: from guppy.dons.net.au (guppy.dons.net.au [203.31.81.9]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA81788; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:52:56 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from darius@guppy.dons.net.au) Received: (from darius@localhost) by guppy.dons.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA00505; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:52:53 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from darius) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000415095048.D87742@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:52:53 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh Cc: Kris Kennaway , arch@freebsd.org, Steve Passe , "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message