Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:58:11 -0300 From: "J. M. Albores" <jote@bigfoot.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie: The "PS1" environment variable & others. Message-ID: <378C0AD3.42A7857B@bigfoot.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907131050400.15397-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com>
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Doug wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, J. M. Albores wrote: > > > [...] > > 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? I understood perfectly (I believe ;) ) him & you too. I could install minicom today "as port" and it had to look for kermit-VER.tgz somewhere in the net (it wasn't in the CD set -?!?!-) and it did it perfectly good! I think I am beggining to understand FreeBSD. BTW, what's the reason to have a hardlink to ~/.profile in "/"? Maybe a bug? > > > 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. > [...] I guess I did, thanks. -- J M Albores To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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