Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:45:50 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: David Xu <davidx@viasoft.com.cn> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shell inconsistency - csh should remove Message-ID: <20001218014550.X19572@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <001b01c068d5$2efd2a40$6201a8c0@William>; from davidx@viasoft.com.cn on Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 05:30:36PM %2B0800 References: <001b01c068d5$2efd2a40$6201a8c0@William>
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* David Xu <davidx@viasoft.com.cn> [001218 01:33] wrote: > Hi, > can next FreeBSD installs bash as default shell instead of > csh? it seems if you default install csh as default one, the system > is inconsistency, because csh can't execute > all scripts in FreeBSD, your scripts are all written in sh shell, > bash can execute them without problem, but csh is incompatible with > sh, it can not execute sh scripts, this is very nasty. FreeBSD will not use bash in the base system. Just because _root's_ shell is csh, doesn't mean that all scripts need to run via csh, we have a sh in /bin and all scripts that need it ask for it via "#!/bin/sh". bye, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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