Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:41:41 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Craig Johnston <caj@lfn.org> Cc: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root's shell Message-ID: <19990601164141.N6251@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990601153913.477A-100000@jane.lfn.org>; from Craig Johnston on Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 03:48:09PM -0500 References: <19990601132656.A21962@wopr.caltech.edu> <Pine.GSO.3.96.990601153913.477A-100000@jane.lfn.org>
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On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 03:48:09PM -0500, a little birdie told me
that Craig Johnston remarked
>
> You pretty much summed up my reasons. Sucks for scripting, and why use
> a different shell interactively?
Because my interactive needs are completely different from my scripting
needs. I ALWAYS use Bourne shell for (shell) scripting, but I always use
tcsh for interactive (unless it's not there, in which case I use csh).
On the flip side, I always change root's shell to /bin/sh:
(ttypa):{1331}% head -2 /etc/passwd
root:*:0:0:The Devil Himself:/root:/bin/sh
toor:*:0:0:The Devil Backwards:/root:/bin/tcsh
This is my personal workstation, so I do a fair bit (read: too much ;) as
root anyway, so I use a comfortable shell for my root (toor) work. But
root itself is always LCD.
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