From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 13:30:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 559B215113 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 13:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA24905; Fri, 28 May 1999 13:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 13:24:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why we don't mess with root's shell: Re: Need help with Root shell? In-Reply-To: <7imjo4$kef$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Suppose FreeBSD were to provide as a default shell for root and for users something with a few more features than sh and csh-- filename completion, command recall and editing, a prompt easy to configure to tell you who you are and where you are. Statically linked, of course, so that it's available in single user mode. Where would YOU put it? Annelise On 28 May 1999, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > James A. Mutter wrote: > > > 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. > > Unless the sysadmin set it up in this way. > > > To put it bluntly, it doesn't exist anywhere but Linux. > > That's what they get for not following standards! > > What's non-standard about it? > A typical Linux distribution uses bash as its /bin/sh, so it's only > natural to include /bin/bash as a hard link. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de > carpe librum: books 'n' reviews > > > > 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