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Date:      Tue, 11 May 1999 20:59:28 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>
Cc:        Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net>, Todd Backman <tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com>, "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@netwalk.com>, phrotos@email.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to change the shell?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990511205634.24802s-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <3738CFC7.DE79EA03@confusion.net>

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On Tue, 11 May 1999, Laurence Berland wrote:

> But it probably wouldnt be a bad thing if I were to copy TCSH into /bin
> and then not worry about Single user mode problems?

/usr/ports/shells/tcsh % file work/tcsh-6.08.00/tcsh
work/tcsh-6.08.00/tcsh: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, not stripped

dynamically linked.  no, that's icky.

DES has a nifty trick, in his .profile he checks for the existance of
his shell (zsh, cause zsh is god...) then runs it if it's available.

-Alfred




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