From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 15:56:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 541681510C for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:56:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00586; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 16:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 16:17:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: root shell/toor shell In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In re changing root's/toor's shell, why not just put som,e code in your .profile/.cshrc that conditionally automagically exec's zsh/bash if it's available? :) if [ -x /usr/local/bin/zsh ] ; then exec /usr/local/bin/zsh ; fi it's a lot easier and safer. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message