From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 21: 1: 3 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 65A8414BF7 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:01:00 -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 XAA29914; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:19:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:19:16 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: jack Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is you favorite shell? In-Reply-To: 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 Wed, 28 Apr 1999, jack wrote: > Today Alfred Perlstein 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. > > > > *slap* *slap* > > > > is your /bin/bash statically linked? If not expect a hell of a time > > using it in single user mode. (no /usr/lib available) > > > > I see too many people coming from Linux thinking that this is _ok_ > > to do. It is NOT. Typing 'bash' after 'su' don't kill you. > > In single user the shell listed in the password file is ignored. > The "Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: " prompt > determines the shell in single user mode. RETURN invokes sh even > with a default root shell of /usr/local/bin/tcsh. The One True > Shell. :) I've seen /bin/sh copied over with a dynamic bash. It will always annoy me to see root's shell not as /bin/sh -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message