From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 5 9:47:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09166153B0 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 09:47:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 125uWg-000D0A-00; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:47:14 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA60085; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:47:14 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:47:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: window manager question In-Reply-To: <38737EE9.742B7440@nwlink.com> 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, 5 Jan 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote: >Why do you need toor to use a different shell? I run root using bash >because sh and csh are annoying. Whenever I've had to do a repair and >my /usr partition is not mounted, it defaults to sh. I just read somewhere (on this list) that it is good practice to leave the root account alone, and not change the shell. But apparently this isn't really a big deal. -=> jm <=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message