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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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