Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:01:47 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>, Ghulum Dastgir <Ghulam_Dastgir@uk.ibm.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shells, users and X Message-ID: <19980922200147.B6192@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980921145504.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> References: <5060100023679139000002L092*@MHS> <XFMail.980921145504.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
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Patrick Gardella wrote: > bash is not in /bin, but in /usr/local/bin/bash, so it can't find it in /bin. > Change the path, and it'll work. Not always. $ ls -l /bin/bash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 360732 Sep 17 22:33 /bin/bash In /usr/local/bin, $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/bash lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Sep 1 03:27 /usr/local/bin/bash -> /usr/local/bin Damn, that looks broken :-) time to fix that one ... > Yes. I've accidentally typed "rm -r *" in the root partition as root before. > Very nasty, even though I caught it quickly (but not quick enough!) I removed everything in /etc the other day, which isn't good :-) Which just shows that using a floppy disk to back up a bit of stuff is better than no backup at all. Damn, I must buy a tape drive soon... -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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