Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 22:01:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Adam Szilveszter <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie tip Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990516214219.14347A-100000@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990516134529.0096a960@mail.bfm.org>
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Hi!
On Sun, 16 May 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
> >Consider trying bash (the shell of choice for most Linux distribs) or
> >tcsh, all of which are available in the /usr/ports/shells directory.
>
> Ah! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Koszonom szepen!!!
:-))))) It's so nice when it turns out that so many people speak some
Hungarian!!!! You're welcome!
> >Caution: As many have said here already, don't change the root shell to
> >anything other from sh or csh because that's a really bad idea.
>
> Why is it a bad idea?
Well, because each of these is installed under /usr/local and there are
high chances that these are not on the root filesystem. Therefore, if
something goes wrong and you have to boot single-user with only root
mounted (like me when I messed up my /etc/fstab) then you will not have
tcsh around. As far as I know, the system falls back on /bin/sh in those
cases but I don't know for sure. So, in order to be able to use my usual
things (like config files) even in these cases, I kept root's shell as csh
and use bash for normal users. (Then at least I will notice that I'm
running as root and switch back to normal user ASAP because of the
inconvenience:-) Another method to try and get you out of the habit of
logging in as root when it is not needed:-)))))) But there are other gurus
who maybe can say it more precisely here or on `questions'.
After all, I'm also quite new to this ( have had FreeBSD for about 3
months) and besides not even specializing in computers or informatics. So
I have to be quiet and believe what the pros say until I'm cute enough to
figure out on my own:-)))))))))))
>
> >I hope it helps.
>
> Yes, it did. Thanks again!
>
> Adam
All the best!
Szilveszter
Szeged University
Hungary
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