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Date:      Thu, 31 Dec 2015 09:17:33 +0100
From:      Murk Fletcher <murk.fletcher@gmail.com>
To:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Rebuilding FreeBSD!
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In my opinion -- zsh is beautiful, especially once you start programming
your own scripts. bash on the other hand is full of bugs and also make your
scripts look ugly.

Murk

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Murk Fletcher <murk.fletcher@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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