From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 14 08:06:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA22336 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 08:06:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA22315 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 08:06:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov (daemon@cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.101]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA06235; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 15:06:45 GMT Received: from fsl.noaa.gov (auk.fsl.noaa.gov) by cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov with ESMTP (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA250661200; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 09:06:40 -0600 Message-Id: <33F31EFF.6AE1B5B2@fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 09:06:39 -0600 From: Sean Kelly Organization: CIRA/NOAA X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02b7 [en] (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.20 9000/725) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: jack Cc: Jonathan Chen , FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Needed: Info on shells and script writing References: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------268F6ED340E8F7AEBD8F544D" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------268F6ED340E8F7AEBD8F544D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > 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 --------------268F6ED340E8F7AEBD8F544D Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Sean Kelly Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" 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: vcard --------------268F6ED340E8F7AEBD8F544D--