From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 07:30:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA24823 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 07:30:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA24815 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 07:30:50 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vSlvH-000QrbC; Wed, 27 Nov 96 16:29 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.3/8.6.12) id QAA02472; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:15:03 +0100 (MET) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199611271515.QAA02472@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: ld.so and emacs problems In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Nov 25, 96 10:48:47 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:15:03 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White writes: > On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Snob Art Genre wrote: > >> 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. > > I stand corrected, at least by this report :) > > I can't say I've tried it, but I'm too scared to experiment with root's > shell. There's not too much to experiment with. When you boot up single user (with the -s flag to the Boot: prompt), the system ignores what you put in /etc/passwd and asks you what (suggesting sh, a good idea). Greg