Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 15:45:19 +0100 (MET) From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions) Cc: rgireyev@BellInd.com Subject: Re: Post installation stuff Message-ID: <199703051445.PAA00270@CoDe.hu> In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=BellInd%l=CDCEXCHANGE-970301001109Z-8223@cdcexchange.bellind.com> from "RGireyev@BellInd.com" at "Feb 28, 97 04:11:09 pm"
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> Hi! > > I have a success story and a couple of questions. > > I have been able to successfully install 2.1.7 on a > 5x86 120, 16M RAM, 850HD. I tried using system > commander but kept getting read error. Anyway, I ended > up using the default MBR handler and it works just fine. > > Question 1: I would like to have my prompt (PS1) > to always show me the directory path I'm in (pwd) > In HP-UX land (Korn shell) it's PS1='$PWD'. > Any suggestions. FreeBSD has only sh and csh installed, all the other shells are only ports or packages. a) get pdksh b) go to AT&T's www server, and get the new ksh93 binary, built on a BSDI system (or the Linux version with the linuxulator, if 2.1.7 can run Linux elf programs - as I've heard 2.2 will do.) c) FreeBSD's sh is a not 100%-compatible Bourne-shell(*), and in it you can do a shell-function, like this: cd() { chdir "$1" PS1="`pwd` # " } and it works. This sh has an ENV-file as ksh has, so you can put this command to it. * (The original Bourne-shell hasn't got functions. The new versions has, but they search functions after built-in-commands, so cannot make a cd-function. And sh hasn't got a chdir command, it's a bit like csh-ism. And yes, in this version of sh, we have alias, but as you know, the ksh alias command cannot get parameters.) > Question 2: After installing the system I created > a user, me. And assigned him (me) to the group wheel. > But I cannot do su or shutdown, what would be a > better group choice (bin comes to mind but I wanna > be sure) I've read somewhere in this list, that adduser cannot correctly put anybody into wheel group, so put that person into group wheel with ``vi /etc/group'' like command. Gabor
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