From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 9 19:43:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C5C16A4EB for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 19:43:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A865643D49 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 19:43:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.20]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48ED113E14; Mon, 9 May 2005 21:43:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.49]) by mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3487872D75; Mon, 9 May 2005 21:43:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org (dsl-213-023-205-018.arcor-ip.net [213.23.205.18]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9EB1234F8; Mon, 9 May 2005 21:43:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kiste.my.domain (lofi@kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j49JhOld032261 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 9 May 2005 21:43:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) From: Michael Nottebrock To: "/dev/null" Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 21:43:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200505082006.35776.lofi@freebsd.org> <1979.216.177.243.38.1115666892.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> In-Reply-To: <1979.216.177.243.38.1115666892.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> X-Face: =Ym$`&q\+S2X$4`X%x%6"L4>Y,$]<":'L%c9"#7#`2tb&E&wsN31on!N\)3BD[g<=?utf-8?q?=2EjnfV=5B=0A=093=23?=>XchLK,o;>bD>c:]^;:>0>vyZ.X[,63GW`&M>}nYnr]-Fp``,[[@lJ!QL|sfW!s)=?utf-8?q?A2!*=0A=09vNkB/=7CL-?=>&QdSbQg X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root's shell (Was: Re: boot banner project) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 19:43:29 -0000 --nextPart1292717.DubRVVMNYl Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 9. May 2005 21:28, /dev/null wrote: > He *boldly* asks without so much as the smallest amount of research - > 1.) > Would it be considered alot of trouble to make (t)csh POSIX compliant? Prolly. > 2.) > Would it be considered difficult or poor practice to make root' shell an > option during install? Well, toor exists. Activate it and give it any shell you want, case closed.= As=20 has been said before, a POSIX-sh compatible shell for root is a red herring= -=20 slap #!/bin/sh in front of your scripts and be done with it. The omnipresence of bash in Linux at least hasn't done a great service to=20 script portability in my experience (you wouldn't think porting KDE isn't a= =20 likely opportunity to be confronted with bad scripting, but I had to learn= =20 otherwise the hard way. Bash makes it way to easy to write scripts that wil= l=20 only work when /bin/sh is really /bin/bash). =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart1292717.DubRVVMNYl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCf71cXhc68WspdLARAmi8AKCDK1MUHmo0JU+Q7KMhK6C7GzDiLACglqnd SAmZeShwWs3KITTlLAp3nds= =9Kfn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1292717.DubRVVMNYl--