From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 22 12:16:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07849 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:16:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07744 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:15:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.04 #1) id 0zLXh5-0001py-00; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:01:47 +0100 Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:01:47 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Patrick Gardella , Ghulum Dastgir Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shells, users and X Message-ID: <19980922200147.B6192@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <5060100023679139000002L092*@MHS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.3i (FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patrick Gardella wrote: > bash is not in /bin, but in /usr/local/bin/bash, so it can't find it in /bin. > Change the path, and it'll work. Not always. $ ls -l /bin/bash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 360732 Sep 17 22:33 /bin/bash In /usr/local/bin, $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/bash lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Sep 1 03:27 /usr/local/bin/bash -> /usr/local/bin Damn, that looks broken :-) time to fix that one ... > Yes. I've accidentally typed "rm -r *" in the root partition as root before. > Very nasty, even though I caught it quickly (but not quick enough!) I removed everything in /etc the other day, which isn't good :-) Which just shows that using a floppy disk to back up a bit of stuff is better than no backup at all. Damn, I must buy a tape drive soon... -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message