From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 14 19: 8:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1A437B741 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 19:08:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (user-2iveb4r.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.44.155]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA11215; Sun, 14 May 2000 22:08:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <391F5BC7.5FA82BD9@confusion.net> Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 22:07:03 -0400 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Harry Putnam Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix Virus.. Old but Nasty References: <391F4D14.1B486779@confusion.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Admittedly I haven't checked in a long time, but when I did last check it asked me what shell I wanted when I went to single user mode. I'm a bit surprised yours doesn't do this...anyone know what the 4.0-STABLE does right now? Harry Putnam wrote: > > Laurence Berland writes: > > > Last I checked if you just change the root shell to bash it will do what > > you want. FreeBSD should prompt for the root shell when you boot up in > > single user anyway, so you can just tell it /bin/sh or /bin/csh then. > > If you set bash as root shell, at least for me, it breaks if you have > to login from an emergency `boot -s' because some of the libraries or > something that bash uses are not on the "/" root partition. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 The above email Copyright (C) 2000 Laurence Berland All rights reserved To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message