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Date:      Thu, 31 Dec 2015 09:12:47 +0100
From:      Murk Fletcher <murk.fletcher@gmail.com>
To:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Rebuilding FreeBSD!
Message-ID:  <CAH=3fOMZ=dJY06JucMjaDaiQ5i=CcfVfdR5zfkJCDMK7Bd28_g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20151231060644.GA42655@becker.bs.l>
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I always:

pkg install zsh
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh

Murk

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday, 30. Dec 2015, 22:17:34 -0600, Yass Amed wrote:
> > Is it possible to rebuild FreeBSD with custom settings such as different
> > shell?
>
> Not actually a different shell. Just install another one
> from ports/packages. To avoid disappointments I recommend to
> leave csh or sh in /etc/passwd at least for root.
>
> There's a lot of tweaks for the base system build. Have a look at
> "man src.conf". E. g. I'm a true hater of "locate" and I say
>
>   WITHOUT_LOCATE=1
>
> in "src.conf". Further I say
>
>   WITHOUT_SENDMAIL=1
>
> but that requires to follow strictly the instructions of the
> mail program alternative how to replace the base systems
> mechanism.
>
> The native location of the file to say things like that is
> "/etc/src.conf" but you can tweak that by saying
> "SRCCONF=/my/path/to/my/taste/of/src.conf" on the "make"
> command line.
>
> Bertram
>
>
> --
> Bertram Scharpf
> Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany
> http://www.bertram-scharpf.de
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