From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 17:12:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.jonelrienton.org (dsl-64-34-25-237.telocity.com [64.34.25.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 913BD37B423 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:12:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 59569 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2000 00:29:55 -0000 Received: from debian (10.29.22.23) by zeus with SMTP; 15 Sep 2000 00:29:55 -0000 Message-ID: <021601c01eab$1fb3eca0$17161d0a@jonelrienton.org> From: "Jonel Rienton" To: "Robert Shea" , References: <000a01c01e02$08ee80b0$11c1ce3f@lola> Subject: Re: Root Shells Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 19:23:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 i'm using 4.1-STABLE so root's shell is csh which is a hard link to tcsh IINM, in my .cshrc, i have towards the end: if (-f /usr/local/bin/zsh) then exec /usr/local/bin/zsh -l endif i give credit on this one to my mentors in IRC, which makes sense if ever i drop down to single mode. Jonel Rienton http://qmail.freebsduser.org sent by qmail-1.03 on a FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Shea" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 11:12 PM Subject: Root Shells | | Over the last few months I have become quite used to zsh, and have | set the root account on one of my boxes to use it. However when a | friend of mine saw this he seemed to think it a very bad thing, | noting that zsh is not in the root partition etc. My question is, | is this really a problem? can't I just run sh if the need arises? | | thanks for any insight, | Robert | | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBOcFr66Q0pAI9Fl/WEQK3FACdG3RXJKsViFZxsGDeJFViYBaYNOAAoNAX RvydLwPfXPFKpjVpI+gQCBzs =+aIN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message