From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jul 23 18:13: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27D3714F1E for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:12:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from summoner@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 29015 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 1999 01:10:24 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 29000 invoked by uid 0); 24 Jul 1999 01:10:23 -0000 Received: from edsl209.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (209.180.175.209) by ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 24 Jul 1999 01:10:23 -0000 Message-ID: <37991278.5324A70B@uswest.net> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:10:16 -0700 From: Summoner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Armstrong Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Armstrong wrote: > Just make sure > root always has a base sh shell for emergencies and your set. Excuse my newbieness, but why should I have sh for root? So that if when screw over my installation again I still have a shell for single user mode and (hopefully) fix things? Or does base shell mean something else? My US$.019: I grew up on Bourne-style shells, I'm used to interactive command-line editting. So it was key for my learning FreeBSD to use bash. I don't need colour, never did. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message