From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 22: 2:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srcso.globis.ru (globis.ru [212.248.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A74837B422 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:02:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from raduga.sochi.net (raduga.sochi.net [212.248.82.76]) by srcso.globis.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03935 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:19:31 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from igor@raduga.sochi.net) Received: (from igor@localhost) by raduga.sochi.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e8E50mL24562 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:00:48 +0400 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:00:47 +0400 From: Igor Roboul To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root Shells Message-ID: <20000914090047.C22658@linux.rainbow> Reply-To: igorr@crosswinds.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000a01c01e02$08ee80b0$11c1ce3f@lola> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <000a01c01e02$08ee80b0$11c1ce3f@lola>; from robert.shea@onlinecables.com on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:12:44PM -0700 X-Operating-System: Linux linux.rainbow 2.2.14-plus-SMP X-Best-Window-Manager: Window Maker (www.windowmaker.org) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:12:44PM -0700, Robert Shea wrote: > > Over the last few months I have become quite used to zsh, and have set the > root account on one of my boxes to use it. However when a friend of mine saw > this he seemed to think it a very bad thing, noting that zsh is not in the > root partition etc. My question is, is this really a problem? can't I just > run sh if the need arises? This is bad. This is bad just because you work as root always. If you don't do this, then why do you need zsh for root. Also, it is good idea to use static linked shell for root. Also, if some error will be found in sh/csh it will be fixed "automagically" after next cvsup (or next next cvsup). But for zsh you need reinstall it from ports. -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", Sochi, Russia http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message