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From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
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Thanks very much to everyone who replied on this.  I will do a little
rewriting.  Somewhere between 2.1 and 2.2, the alias su -m for su was
in the skeleton files for .cshrc was dropped, so I will have to 
explain about that too; the document currently assumes that this alias 
is in place.

I tried to changed root's shell to tcsh back when I was running
probably 2.1.6 or 2.1.7, and got into enough trouble that I'm
reluctant to try it again; I am now puzzled about why I got into
that trouble.  But I think I can rewrite it appropriately in any
case.

Thanks again.

	Annelise  

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Sean Kelly wrote:

> > 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
> 
> 

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