From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 5 23:24:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 246A2106567F for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 23:24:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aimass@yabarana.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DABD58FC39 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 23:24:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws18 with SMTP id 18so921210vws.13 for ; Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:24:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.72.132 with SMTP id m4mr6827187qaj.145.1275780276883; Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:24:36 -0700 (PDT) Sender: aimass@yabarana.com Received: by 10.229.88.12 with HTTP; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 16:24:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 19:24:36 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2y2LVzZvqb-gL670KAgSAVy3T68 Message-ID: From: Alejandro Imass To: Giorgos Tsiapaliokas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which is the basic differences between the shells? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:24:38 -0000 On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: > hello, > i am coming from the linux world where i was using the bash shell but i > found out that there are also much more. > can u tell me the basic differences between them?(pros and cons) > Too broad a topic I suspect fo u to get an answer here. In FBSD the base system is completely separate from the applications, that is really great because for example your system upgrades are independendent of applications / ports. The base shell is in the base system so don't replace the shell for the root user but rather start bash from your root account if you wish. This will make sense when your system breaks in an upgrade for example. For everything else you can safely use bash and choose bash for your normal users. I use bash all the time even for root, but in the latter case I start it manually. Best, Alejandro Imass > thanks in advance > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >