Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 13:01:57 -0400 From: "Mitch Vincent" <cygone@zoomnet.net> To: "Pete Vanderburgh" <peterv@verio.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: why we don't mess with root's shell: Re: Need help withRoot shell? Message-ID: <020501bea862$a1f67ea0$0200000a@cygone.zoomnet.net>
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I think what they're talking about is the path to bash, not the fact that bash is used. On my FreeBSD box, it's /usr/local/bin/bash. -Mitch "When all your plans fail, backup, re-group and press on. The only real failure is quitting..." -----Original Message----- From: Pete Vanderburgh <peterv@verio.net> To: James A. Mutter <jm7996@devrycols.edu> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>; . . <corinthian420@hotmail.com>; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Thursday, May 27, 1999 12:59 PM Subject: Re: why we don't mess with root's shell: Re: Need help withRoot shell? >"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! > ><<snip>> > >> >> 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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