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Subject: Re: Behaviour of su(1)
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On Friday 31 October 2008 19:33:44 Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric Perrin wrote:

> As a side question, is it considered bad practice to set root's shell
> and locales to something else then the default ?

By some (most?) yes. If you decide to change the default shell, to one that=
's=20
not in the base system (i.e., a ksh/zsh/bash port), then it's highly=20
recommended to make a static version that installs into /bin.
This will save you a number of headaches, when a library dependency is=20
(unsuccessfully or partially) upgraded or /usr is not accessable.
However, when reporting bugs and you only slightly suspect it to be shell=20
related, you should be able to reproduce it on csh for the purpose of=20
reporting and adjust the bugreport if you can not.

=2D-=20
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.