From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 10:17:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34AC715719 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:17:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adamn@csl.com) Received: from csl.com (hermes.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.13]) by mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA00399; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:09:10 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3727420F.39E539BA@csl.com> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:14:55 +0000 From: Adam Nealis Organization: Criterion Software, Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.34 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Weiss Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is you favorite shell? References: <19990428165736.5E70F153A8@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Weiss wrote: > > same shells, which one do you think is best to use for: > > a normal user account? > > root? > > I use bash for my users, and csh for my root. I've heard many knocks > against bash though...what do you think? I wouldn't recommend csh for root - certainly not for shell scripting either. Too limited. I have no problems with bash 2 as root user. Tho' I do make sure it's copied into /bin as the default install is to /usr/local/bin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message