From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 11 17:52:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [208.247.99.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C24637B403 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:52:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from zaphod ([204.68.178.35] helo=softweyr.com ident=56b4bae7ac244c8fde98021f0fff13ab) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15VjWc-000Gez-00; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 18:54:42 -0600 Message-ID: <3B75D33D.68368F22@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 18:52:13 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Vervlied Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bash in /usr/local/bin? References: <3B74D180.D036D629@hway.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason Vervlied wrote: > > Is there a reason why the bash shell is kept in /usr/local/bin. Because bash is not 'part of FreeBSD', it is an add-on. > I would > personally prefer to use it for my root shell, but if I remember right, > root needs to have something that is in /bin (I could be wrong). If I do > need a shell located in /bin for root would it break anything if I moved > bash from /usr/local/bin to /bin (yes I know I woudl have to update > /etc/shells)? Yes, unless you compile bash as a static executable. I just add a rootb account that has bash as its shell and use that for day-to-day work, keeping the root account as shipped by the vendor on every system. This has the advantage of giving me a root account with a consistent shell on any system type, without screwing up the vendor root account. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message