From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 13 21: 4:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-srv.MR.COM.AR (mail-srv.mr.com.ar [200.41.14.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6010A15386 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:04:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jote@bigfoot.com) Received: from bigfoot.com ([209.13.62.171]) by mail-srv.MR.COM.AR (Post.Office MTA v3.5.2 release 221 ID# 0-59784U17500L14800S0V35) with ESMTP id AR for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 01:02:52 -0300 Message-ID: <378C0AD3.42A7857B@bigfoot.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:58:11 -0300 From: "J. M. Albores" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie: The "PS1" environment variable & others. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, J. M. Albores wrote: > > > [...] > > I was surprised that > > (after a short experience with Linux) csh was the default shell for root > > after FreeBSD installation! > > Which is convenient for which purpose? > > Greg already explained that to you, did you not understand his > response? I understood perfectly (I believe ;) ) him & you too. I could install minicom today "as port" and it had to look for kermit-VER.tgz somewhere in the net (it wasn't in the CD set -?!?!-) and it did it perfectly good! I think I am beggining to understand FreeBSD. BTW, what's the reason to have a hardlink to ~/.profile in "/"? Maybe a bug? > > > In my machine, every user has his own .profile at ~/ by default. > > If I log as root, my /.profile is the same of /root/.profile. If I edit > > one file, the other changes too. And /.profile is NOT a symlink to > > /root/.profile. (?!) It has just "common" file permissions. I don't > > understand this. > > It's not a soft link, it's a hard link. Do this: > > ls -li /.profile /root/.profile > > If you don't understand what you're seeing, man ls. > [...] I guess I did, thanks. -- J M Albores To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message