From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jul 25 1:51:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C887D14EA0 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 01:51:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from summoner@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 6462 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 1999 08:51:37 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 6438 invoked by uid 0); 25 Jul 1999 08:51:36 -0000 Received: from edsl209.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (209.180.175.209) by ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 25 Jul 1999 08:51:36 -0000 Message-ID: <379AD017.F651CC0E@uswest.net> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 01:51:35 -0700 From: Summoner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: John Armstrong , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! References: <37991278.5324A70B@uswest.net> <379914D5.6DB65A6C@uswest.net> <3799EA01.4A1E60C@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Summoner wrote: >> >> John Armstrong wrote: >>> Moral of the story, if something goes wrong with your root login >>> shell your in a little trouble and much less is likely to happen to >>> sh then to tcsh or bash or any other port shell. >> >> Why would sh be less likely to get screwed up? Because it's hardly >> ever used? > > Hardly ever used?!?!??!?! FOTCROTFLOLMAO!!!!!!!!!! > > Either sh or csh, because these are linked static and available on > /bin, so they can be used in single-user mode. Static linked means that the compiled binary has the neccessary (runtime?) libraries compiled into it, instead of using shared libraries on the system? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message