Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 09:06:39 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net> Cc: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Needed: Info on shells and script writing Message-ID: <33F31EFF.6AE1B5B2@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970814004520.24675A-100000@zeus.xtalwind.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] > 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. That might be the case on FreeBSD. But I do remember some naive SunOS 4 system admins who changed root's shell to /usr/local/bin/tcsh ... and then their /usr/local partition went bad. It could've been easily fsck'd from single user mode, but booting from CD-ROM was their only recourse. Considering that documentation even explicitly written for FreeBSD is read by non-FreeBSD users, Annelise's advice is still good. (And that does happen: after writing the Printing chapter for the handbook, with explicit "FreeBSD"s appearing everywhere, I still get email questions asking how to do such-and-such with the System V spooler and how in DOS the print devices are LPT1: and not /dev/lpt0, etc.) --k [-- Attachment #2 --] begin: vcard fn: Sean Kelly n: Kelly;Sean org: CIRA/NOAA adr: NOAA/OAR/ERL/FSL/SDD R/E/FS4;;325 Broadway;Boulder;Colorado;80303;USA email;internet: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov title: Research Coordinator tel;work: 303.497.6247 tel;fax: 303.497.7256 tel;home: Yeah, right. x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE end: vcardhelp
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