Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:57:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>, Langa Kentane <LKentane@mweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: csh or bash (newbie) Message-ID: <19990225135746.G52343@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9902251122340.11443-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>; from Jonathan Chen on Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 11:28:37AM %2B1300 References: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F31817803047D@za12nt02.mweb.com> <Pine.SC5.4.10.9902251122340.11443-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
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On Thursday, 25 February 1999 at 11:28:37 +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > 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). I think I might have been responsible for that rumour. The background was that with some other operating systems, you don't get a prompt, and if in single-user mode you try to start a shell which requires dynamic libraries in /usr/lib, it will just die on you. But as you say, you get prompted, so it's not a problem with FreeBSD. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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