From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 13 21:49:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA22591 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 21:49:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (serial.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA22579 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 21:49:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (zeus.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA24695; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:49:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:49:13 -0400 (EDT) From: jack X-Sender: jack@zeus.xtalwind.net To: Jonathan Chen cc: 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: > [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? Absolutely not. > 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'). I have seven boxen with tcsh as the root shell and entering single user mode they all prompt for a shell, offering sh as the default. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------