Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:54:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: "J. M. Albores" <jote@bigfoot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie: The "PS1" environment variable & others. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907131050400.15397-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <37896B5E.AD390164@bigfoot.com>
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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, J. M. Albores wrote:
> First of all, thanks for you answer, Greg.
> Well... In fact I had found the "chsh" command browsing man pages and I
> was using /bin/sh, as I didn't find bash-VER.tgz in my CD-ROM even I
> didn't do an intensive search, and I am not used to csh.
It should be on the ports/packages CD. You should definitely
become familiar with the ports. :) You can install them without the CD at
all. Check the freebsd home page for more info.
> But -if it's possible in this list- I would like to ask other question:
> Does C shell have any advantage over bash or sh?
Only if you've already learned csh. Most new unix users find sh or
bash easier to learn and use. (Yes, I realize that diehard *csh users
willl disagree, but you're in the minority.)
> I was surprised that
> (after a short experience with Linux) csh was the default shell for root
> after FreeBSD installation!
> Which is convenient for which purpose?
Greg already explained that to you, did you not understand his
response?
> In my machine, every user has his own .profile at ~/ by default.
> If I log as root, my /.profile is the same of /root/.profile. If I edit
> one file, the other changes too. And /.profile is NOT a symlink to
> /root/.profile. (?!) It has just "common" file permissions. I don't
> understand this.
It's not a soft link, it's a hard link. Do this:
ls -li /.profile /root/.profile
If you don't understand what you're seeing, man ls.
Good luck,
Doug
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