From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 27 9:57:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-out.vma.verio.net (smtp-out.vma.verio.net [168.143.190.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F799150BA for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 09:57:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peterv@verio.net) Received: from smtp-gw.vma.verio.net ([168.143.0.18]) by smtp-out.vma.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 10n3Qw-00045X-00; Thu, 27 May 1999 12:55:06 -0400 Received: from nessie.lan.intr.net (nessie.lan.intr.net [207.32.92.13]) by smtp-gw.vma.verio.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA15459; Thu, 27 May 1999 12:57:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <374D79CD.969EA9AC@verio.net> Received: from iipc245.intr.net by nessie.lan.intr.net via smtpd (for mail.clark.net [168.143.0.10]) with SMTP; 27 May 1999 17:03:29 UT Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:58:53 -0400 From: Pete Vanderburgh Organization: Verio Web Hosting Technical Staff, Vienna, VA. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "James A. Mutter" Cc: Alfred Perlstein , ". ." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why we don't mess with root's shell: Re: Need help withRoot shell? References: <19990526160034.39939.qmail@hotmail.com> <3.0.5.32.19990526135641.007c09f0@devrycols.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "James A. Mutter" wrote: > > At 01:11 PM 5/26/99 -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >On Wed, 26 May 1999, . . wrote: > > > >WOOT! Yet another reason why not to change root's shell! <> > > If noone's mentioned this yet, /bin/bash is a "linux only" thing. > It doesn't exist on FreeBSD, it doesn't exist on NetBSD, it doesn't exist > on OpenBSD. > It doesn't exist on _any_ Sun box, it doesn't exist on _any_ IBM box, it > doesn't exist on _any_ Digital box. > > To put it bluntly, it doesn't exist anywhere but Linux. > > That's what they get for not following standards! > Just for the record, I am currently running FreeBSD 3.1 Stable on a Pentium 133, using IceWm for X-Windows, and yes, my root shell is bash. I am new at this as well, and had some help installing FreeBSD, so I'm not precisely certain about how I set up the bash configuration. But it does work, and isn't giving me problems. If this setup *is* unusual (and it sounds like it is?) I guess I should live it up now; I may not be able to do this again? Just my $0.02. ===================================== Pete Vanderburgh Verio Web Hosting, Vienna, VA. peterv@verio.net ===================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message