Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:15:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>, Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> Cc: Langa Kentane <LKentane@mweb.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: csh or bash (newbie) Message-ID: <19990226111518.J431@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990225093617.11596A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>; from Konrad Heuer on Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 09:46:19AM %2B0100 References: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9902251122340.11443-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990225093617.11596A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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On Thursday, 25 February 1999 at 9:46:19 +0100, Konrad Heuer wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Jonathan Chen wrote: > >> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Langa Kentane wrote: >> >>> The other day I asked for help on how to change the default shell for root. >>> Some told me that it was not a very good idea to change root's shell. >>> >>> Can someone explain to me why? >> >> Can't think of a reason why. >> >> Some may say that when you go into single user mode, having the >> non-default root shell will cause a problem; but FreeBSD will prompt >> you for which shell to use when you go to single-user mode (in >> which case I'd go with the default /bin/sh). > > I like use tcsh as my default shell (for root, too), but one has to be > aware of two problems that might occur especially in single user mode: > > 1) bash, ksh, tcsh, zsh etc. are installed in /usr/local/bin and are > usually not available immediately in single user mode when only the root > file system is mounted read-only. > > 2) It doesn't help to copy those shells to /bin since they're dynamically > linked and thus need the shared libraries in /usr/lib which may not be > loadable when booting into single-user mode. Sure, but how often are you in single-user mode? And since you get prompted for a shell (and the default is /bin/sh), you're covered there too. I've been using /bin/bash as my root shell for years. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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