From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 12:24:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB7B15793 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.128]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990428192522.EUQJ5596385.mta1-rme@wocker>; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 07:25:22 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Adam Nealis Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 07:22:39 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: what is you favorite shell? Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <37274946.903A2612@csl.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990428192522.EUQJ5596385.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28 Apr 99, at 17:45, Adam Nealis wrote: > 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. Is the bash in the ports statically linked? [he looks nervously at several bash-root-shell systems...] -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message