From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 14:37:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.iastate.edu (mailhub.iastate.edu [129.186.1.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B09011728 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:37:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rhawkins@iastate.edu) Received: from eyry.econ.iastate.edu (eyry.econ.iastate.edu [129.186.32.221]) by mailhub.iastate.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA12543; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:37:07 -0600 (CST) Received: from eyry.econ.iastate.edu (really [127.0.0.1]) by eyry.econ.iastate.edu via in.smtpd with esmtp (ident hawk using rfc1413) id (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:37:07 -0600 (EST) Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 (debian) To: Pat Lynch Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: csh or bash (newbie) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:00:04 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:37:07 -0600 From: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG pat pattered, > you *can* change roots shell, but its not a good idea unless you have a > statically compiled shell. > Reason: > be able to find the libraries neccesary to run. With FreeBSD it asks you > which shell you want to use when dropping into single user mode to fix > these things, but its just not a good habit to get into. Mostly because > alot of other unices *don't*. I've been toying with a script to check, but I'm not quite sure how. I would like a .file that, on starting interactively, checks to see if bash is available, and then executes it, otherwise staying in sh But then again, I want lots of things, like the BSD utilities instead of GNU under linux (if only to hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the church of emacs :) rick -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message