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Subject: Re: bash can not find most of my commands
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Paul Macdonald wrote:

> On 22/02/2011 16:40, Alokat wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have changed my shell from csh to bash ...
>> But after that I have to call "reboot" like /sbin/reboot.
>> 
>> How can I change that without changing the shell. :)
>> 
> don't change your root shell!
>
> csh is in the base system so is safe and will always* work,
>
> bash is a port and gets updated regularly, there's been at least one occasion 
> when my bash upgrade failed and i couln't login as root.  very frustrating..
>
> I just get used to changing to bash after that, much safer!

Consider running bash from .cshrc.  Less breakable than changing root's 
shell, but still kind of automatic.