From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 27 10: 4:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns3.zoomnet.net (ns3.zoomnet.net [206.230.102.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3E11509C for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 10:04:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cygone@zoomnet.net) Received: from cygone (cygone.zoomnet.net [208.32.49.7]) by ns3.zoomnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA29979; Thu, 27 May 1999 13:03:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <020501bea862$a1f67ea0$0200000a@cygone.zoomnet.net> From: "Mitch Vincent" To: "Pete Vanderburgh" Cc: Subject: Re: why we don't mess with root's shell: Re: Need help withRoot shell? Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 13:01:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: James A. Mutter Cc: Alfred Perlstein ; . . ; 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! > ><> > >> >> 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