From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 16 21:24:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D96E37BC00 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:24:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA21507; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:24:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38D1C182.70E2BB@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:24:18 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0315 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan Thompson Cc: cjclark@home.com, Harry Woodward-Clarke , Robert Fulford , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: toor reference in The Complete FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ryan Thompson wrote: > Tell me again why it is not a good idea to move bash/tcsh into /bin? I > suppose it violates heir(7) to some extent, and bloats the (generally > sleek) root partition some, but beyond that, is their any reason not to? Because merely moving it into /bin is not adequate. You have to compile it static first, then hope that nothing on the system changes from time to time that prevents it from running. But I assume what you're really asking is, "why can't I use as my root shell?" The answer is that you're way better off with a shell that stays in synch with the system. Of course, if you're determined to do it anyway, go ahead. When your system breaks, don't come crying to us. :) > Heck, I use csh for most things anyway, so I suppose this question is > relatively academic :-) Wow... you're really into pain here. Doug -- "While the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it seems, it would be easier sometimes to change the past" - Jackson Browne, "Fountain of Sorrow" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message