From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 10 23:38:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E63E37B407 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 23:38:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f7B6cH823203; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 23:38:17 -0700 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 23:38:17 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Jason Vervlied Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bash in /usr/local/bin? Message-ID: <20010810233817.A22595@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <3B74D180.D036D629@hway.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B74D180.D036D629@hway.net>; from jvervlied@hway.net on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 02:32:32AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 02:32:32AM -0400, Jason Vervlied wrote: > Is there a reason why the bash shell is kept in /usr/local/bin. I would > personally prefer to use it for my root shell, but if I remember right, > root needs to have something that is in /bin (I could be wrong). If I do > need a shell located in /bin for root would it break anything if I moved > bash from /usr/local/bin to /bin (yes I know I woudl have to update > /etc/shells)? Assuming it was compiled staticly (a quick glance at the port's Makefile seems to indicate it should be) it should work. If it's dynamicly linked it won't work because the libs are in /usr which isn't mounted in single user mode. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7dNLZXY6L6fI4GtQRAgEpAJ9H5M41Uc0/a6MrMSgRvfmB5RoyeQCeOty/ SzhXb+mQNLYIiJG55DvHKNs= =p+fJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message