Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:14:23 +0000 From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Stephen Allen <p0036343@brookes.ac.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell Message-ID: <47273C3F.7010403@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <472647A0.3030009@brookes.ac.uk> References: <472647A0.3030009@brookes.ac.uk>
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Stephen Allen wrote: > It's been drawn to my attention not to use bash from the ports > collection, because if one of it's dependencies (gettext or libiconv) > fails or is updated significantly, it could break, and prevent login. > The suggested solution was to use a base shell (such as sh) and append > 'bash -l' to .shrc to automatically enter bash. > > The quite annoying side-effect is having to type 'exit' twice to get out > of a su shell or screen. > I tend to activate the toor user and use bash with toor and csh with root, After all thats kind of why its there :) (jhary@prawn)$grep toor /etc/passwd toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:/usr/local/bin/bash Vince > Would it be a better idea to use the pre-compiled binary for bash? And > if I did so, could I be alerted to updates as easy as using 'pkg_version > -v' when checking if any ports need updating? > > Many thanks, > Steve > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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