Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 08:54:33 +0200 From: Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: csh is root's shell? Message-ID: <20041006065433.GB612@loge.nixsys.be> In-Reply-To: <20041006010051.GA53821@sirius.speicher.org> References: <200410060019.i960JSbq012606@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <1F92A08DB846503C2933CB0D@[192.168.1.16]> <20041006010051.GA53821@sirius.speicher.org>
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On 2004-10-05 21:00:51 (-0400), Geoff Speicher <geoff@speicher.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:26:32PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > --On Tuesday, October 05, 2004 5:19 PM -0700 David Wolfskill > > <david@catwhisker.org> wrote: > > > > > Well, per > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/master.passwd?rev=1.1&conte > > > nt-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup it looks as if /bin/csh was root's shell as > > > of Revision 1.1, Sun Jun 20 13:41:37 1993 UTC (11 years, 3 months ago) by > > > rgrimes. > > > > > > No, I didn't check to see if it had changed back & forth in the interim. > > > > Wow. I must have been carrying my passwd files along with my upgrades > > since forever. I don't have a single system that has csh as root's shell. > > I imagine it was made the default because of its supposed friendly > interactivity features. FreeBSD's csh is really tcsh, which is quite friendly for interactive use. I seem to recall that many shells have in fact borrowed some of the friendly features of tcsh (think zsh). > I personally find it quite the contrary (no offense to Bill Joy of course), > as do plenty of others. A matter of taste. > Google on 'csh considered harmful' for a compelling argument. That's about shell programming, not about interactive use. <http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/>; - Philip [yes, happy tcsh user :-)] -- Philip Paeps Please don't Cc me, I am philip@freebsd.org subscribed to the list. BOFH Excuse #210: We didn't pay the Internet bill and it's been cut off.
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