Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:50:42 +0100 From: Kristian Holdich <kjholdich@yahoo.co.uk> To: Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions Message-ID: <1089539442.49338.3.camel@slide.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: <20040711052228.GA587@procyon.nekulturny.org> References: <40F00DDD.7772.12F6CBB@localhost> <1089468142.26300.46.camel@slide.hopto.org> <20040711052228.GA587@procyon.nekulturny.org>
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On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 06:22, Danny MacMillan wrote: > If your concern is that you won't be able to log in to single-user mode, > consider that you will be prompted for a shell in any case (at least I > am). If your concern is that you would like to have bash available in > single user mode as well, make sure it is statically linked. If you will > be installing from ports, the following should work (if I'm reading the > Makefile correctly): > > cd /usr/ports/shells/bash2 > make -DWANT_STATIC_BASH install clean That makes sense, will double check it next time I do a reboot. I don't care about having bash in single user mode, just prefer it in day to day use. It's been a while since I've used *BSD but seem to remember some other Unixes were less forgiving...
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