From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jul 25 16:14:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3E114D12 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 16:14:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA13555; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 08:40:19 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA57070; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 08:40:03 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 08:40:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Summoner Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Which root shell? (was: What to tell to Linux-centric people?!) Message-ID: <19990726084001.I51019@freebie.lemis.com> References: <37991278.5324A70B@uswest.net> <379914D5.6DB65A6C@uswest.net> <3799EA01.4A1E60C@newsguy.com> <379AD017.F651CC0E@uswest.net> <379AD150.E2110AEA@newsguy.com> <379AF958.41E15B97@uswest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <379AF958.41E15B97@uswest.net>; from Summoner on Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 04:47:36AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 25 July 1999 at 4:47:36 -0700, Summoner wrote: > "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: >> Summoner wrote: >>> >>> Static linked means that the compiled binary has the neccessary >>> (runtime?) libraries compiled into it, instead of using shared >>> libraries on the system? >> >> Correct. > > Mama always done told me I was one of the sharper knives in the > drawer. :-) > > If I make a static linked version of bash, would it no longer be a > Bad Thing(tm) to use it for root's shell, With the exception of single user mode, you don't need to do this. You can use sh in single-user mode and bash the rest of the time. A well-kept secret is that /bin/sh has Emacs-style command line editing, but you need to enable it with 'set -o emacs'. It seems to have vi style editing too. > or should I just learn to use csh like a good little unixhead? No. csh has no redeeming virtues. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message