From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 20 23:02:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA29997 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 23:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA29991 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 23:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA29182 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 08:00:06 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA15041 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 May 1996 08:00:06 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id HAA08718 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 May 1996 07:24:13 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605210524.HAA08718@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Congrats on CURRENT 5/1 SNAP... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 07:24:13 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <23827.832648342@palmer.demon.co.uk> from Gary Palmer at "May 21, 96 04:12:22 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Gary Palmer wrote: > I must admit I will not argue if you move csh from /bin. I don't see > much use for it myself. I heavily object. :) It's the default shell for BSD's, and many of us are used to use it. More importantly, it's a nice to have ``recovery shell'' for single- user operation in case you've blown your /stand, and the /bin/sh copy is damaged. (Remember, single-user now asks for which shell to use.) Even for a no-csh-weenie, it should be enough to pick the /bin/sh copy from the backup tape. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)