From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Oct 19 16:49:01 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E905E16A4B3
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:49:01 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu)
Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (dc.cis.okstate.edu [139.78.100.219])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A70843D62
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:49:00 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu)
Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (localhost.okstate.edu [127.0.0.1])
	by dc.cis.okstate.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k9JGmxOl017063
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:49:00 -0500 (CDT)
	(envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu)
Message-Id: <200610191649.k9JGmxOl017063@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-ID: <17061.1161276539.1@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:48:59 -0500
From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Subject: Re: Why csh on Root? 
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:49:02 -0000

RW writes:
> There is an alternative uid 0 user called toor which you can use if you 
> want
> to use bash as root. OTOH hand there is a school of thought that you
> shouldn't be too comfortable as root.

	My thanks to all.  On all the systems in question, bash
ends up on the same partition as root, but the points are
well-taken.

	One thing I was trying to accomplish is to have a bell in
the  root prompt.  In the .cshrc file is a string 

set prompt="\007\!# "

	I have also tried replacing the \007 with the actual
Control-G and even a \a.  All produce an attempt to render a bell
but what is sent to the remote terminal is ^G1#
as in the actual ASCII characters ^ and G.

I am not sure what to do to correct this problem as I do not get
it in bash.  A \a or \007 is sent literally.

	The env output for root on this system shows no environmental
variables that should inhibit the beep so I am kind of stumped.

Martin McCormick