Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 11:55:11 +1000 From: Phil Homewood <philh@mincom.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root shell/toor shell Message-ID: <19991030115511.A10041@mincom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910291615290.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>; from Alfred Perlstein on Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 04:17:51PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9910281617570.98407-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910291615290.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 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.
That one caught me out once, in an environment where /usr/local/bin
was NFS mounted across subtly different machines, and zsh was broken
on some. My solution:
[ -x /usr/local/bin/zsh ] && /usr/local/bin/zsh -c /bin/true && \
exec /usr/local/bin/zsh -l
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