From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 13 20:59:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA20083 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 20:59:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iconz.co.nz (iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA20076 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 20:59:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by iconz.co.nz (8.6.12/8.6.10) with ESMTP id PAA02155; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 15:58:55 +1200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id PAA08151; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 15:58:53 +1200 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA03610; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 12:28:03 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA00872; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 12:27:07 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 12:27:01 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Annelise Anderson cc: Joel Ray Holveck , Studded@dal.net, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Needed: Info on shells and script writing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Annelise Anderson wrote: [snip] > Note: Do not change root's shell. It must be either sh or csh, because > otherwise you may not have a working shell when the system puts you > into single user mode. Is this true? I've got tcsh as my root's shell, and when I `shutdown' into single user, FreeBSD prompts me for the shell to use (in which case I accept the default `sh'). Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen e-mail : jonc@pinnacle.co.nz Pinnacle Software Ltd Voice : +64.9.415.4460 Auckland, New Zealand Fax : +64.9.415.4250