From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 10:48:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF0515456 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:48:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adamn@csl.com) Received: from csl.com (hermes.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.13]) by mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA00969; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:39:58 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <37274946.903A2612@csl.com> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:45:42 +0000 From: Adam Nealis Organization: Criterion Software, Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.34 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: W Gerald Hicks , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: what is you favorite shell? References: <199904281738.NAA93113@bellsouth.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > > I have no problems with bash 2 as root user. Tho' I do make > > sure it's copied into /bin as the default install is to > > /usr/local/bin. > > I wouldn't do that. Over here we enforce the rule that only > 'make installworld' is permitted to install programs into > /bin or the other system installed directories for executables. > > If you *must* do this, make sure it is a statically linked bash. Which I do. It's just so I can have the convenience of bash if for some reason I'm in single-user and I don't want to mount /usr/local. I don't rely on bash-isms - I always use vanilla sh. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message