From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 13 21:28:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA21511 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 21:28:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [206.246.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA21503 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 21:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [206.246.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA10772; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:27:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:27:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Jonathan Chen cc: Annelise Anderson , 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 Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Jonathan Chen wrote: > 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'). FreeBSD's been fixed in that regard, but for those of us who work on multiple machines, well, there's lots of bsd platforms that this could get you on. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------