From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 19:28:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7E814C8B for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 19:28:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA26137; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:57:48 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA95943; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:57:46 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990225135746.G52343@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:57:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jonathan Chen , Langa Kentane Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: csh or bash (newbie) References: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F31817803047D@za12nt02.mweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathan Chen on Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 11:28:37AM +1300 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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