Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:17:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Cliff Rowley <dozprompt@onsea.com> To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Cc: cjclark@home.com, Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com>, Robert Fulford <jbstrt@alltel.net>, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: toor reference in The Complete FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003171214160.2429-100000@merlin.onsea.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003162014330.50414-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
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> 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?
>
> I suppose in shared access systems, some machines might not have access to
> the "add-on" shells (thus would not share a common /bin directory), and
> that might be another reason not to give root /bin/bash.
You're getting there with 'shared', but we're talking shared
libraries. Things in /bin are generally statically linked, and since in
single user mode you might not have access to /usr, bash will not execute
(since it requires libc*). There is no problem, however, if you compile
bash statically.
I think this is the only general concern (and the fact that die hard's
hate bloated shells like bash - personally I like it)
HTH
Cliff Rowley
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