From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 13: 9:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BD9C14EAD for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:09:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA21694; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:27:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:27:47 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Dan Langille Cc: Adam Nealis , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is you favorite shell? In-Reply-To: <19990428192522.EUQJ5596385.mta1-rme@wocker> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Dan Langille wrote: > 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...] oops.... -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message