Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:09:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Cc: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net>, Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Needed: Info on shells and script writing Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970814105254.15599B-200000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <33F31EFF.6AE1B5B2@fsl.noaa.gov>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --------------268F6ED340E8F7AEBD8F544D Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970814105254.15599D@andrsn.stanford.edu> Thanks very much to everyone who replied on this. I will do a little rewriting. Somewhere between 2.1 and 2.2, the alias su -m for su was in the skeleton files for .cshrc was dropped, so I will have to explain about that too; the document currently assumes that this alias is in place. I tried to changed root's shell to tcsh back when I was running probably 2.1.6 or 2.1.7, and got into enough trouble that I'm reluctant to try it again; I am now puzzled about why I got into that trouble. But I think I can rewrite it appropriately in any case. Thanks again. Annelise On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Sean Kelly wrote: > > I have seven boxen with tcsh as the root shell and entering single user > > mode they all prompt for a shell, offering sh as the default. > > That might be the case on FreeBSD. But I do remember some naive SunOS 4 system > admins who changed root's shell to /usr/local/bin/tcsh ... and then their > /usr/local partition went bad. It could've been easily fsck'd from single user > mode, but booting from CD-ROM was their only recourse. > > Considering that documentation even explicitly written for FreeBSD is read by > non-FreeBSD users, Annelise's advice is still good. (And that does happen: > after writing the Printing chapter for the handbook, with explicit "FreeBSD"s > appearing everywhere, I still get email questions asking how to do such-and-such > with the System V spooler and how in DOS the print devices are LPT1: and not > /dev/lpt0, etc.) > > --k > > --------------268F6ED340E8F7AEBD8F544D Content-Type: TEXT/X-VCARD; CHARSET=us-ascii; NAME="vcard.vcf" Content-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970814105254.15599E@andrsn.stanford.edu> Content-Description: Card for Sean Kelly begin: vcard fn: Sean Kelly n: Kelly;Sean org: CIRA/NOAA adr: NOAA/OAR/ERL/FSL/SDD R/E/FS4;;325 Broadway;Boulder;Colorado;80303;USA email;internet: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov title: Research Coordinator tel;work: 303.497.6247 tel;fax: 303.497.7256 tel;home: Yeah, right. x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE end: vcard --------------268F6ED340E8F7AEBD8F544D--
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