Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 04:44:27 +0000 From: John Murphy <freebsd001@freeode.co.uk> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode? Message-ID: <20071201044427.38bd2c84@asus.freeode.co.uk>
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I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too bad this time. I thought I'd broken it after choosing /bin/tcsh as my shell in single user mode. It grumbled about termcap (I think) and then gave me a "simple shell" with a % prompt. fsck and mount were unknown commands and even though I could change directory to /usr or /home they were (apparently) empty! Scary! I now realise it was because they were not mounted of course. I'll know to always accept the suggested /bin/sh in future, but I was wondering if the only reason a choice of a different shell is offered is to scare the unwary. -- Thanks, John.
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