Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 23:55:15 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz Cc: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, Studded@dal.net, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Needed: Info on shells and script writing Message-ID: <199708150355.XAA07712@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970814122632.858B-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> (message from Jonathan Chen on Thu, 14 Aug 1997 12:27:01 %2B1200 (NZST))
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> > >Note: Do not change root's shell. It must be either sh or csh, because > > >otherwise you may not have a working shell when the system puts you > > >into single user mode. > Is this true? I've got tcsh as my root's shell, and when I `shutdown' > into single user, FreeBSD prompts me for the shell to use (in which > case I accept the default `sh'). Whenever you write, remember your target audience... in this case, rank newbies. Let's give them as few unnecessary prompts as possible. -- Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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