From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 14:34:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6853311EC3 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:29:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12568; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:28:37 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:28:37 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Langa Kentane Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: csh or bash (newbie) In-Reply-To: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F31817803047D@za12nt02.mweb.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, 24 Feb 1999, Langa Kentane wrote: > The other day I asked for help on how to change the default shell for root. > Some told me that it was not a very good idea to change root's shell. > > Can someone explain to me why? Can't think of a reason why. Some may say that when you go into single user mode, having the non-default root shell will cause a problem; but FreeBSD will prompt you for which shell to use when you go to single-user mode (in which case I'd go with the default /bin/sh). So, use what ever shell you want to for root. I do. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Don't forget the most important rule to live by.. Never believe anything you read on the USENET" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message