From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 22 13:52:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26580 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:52:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26495 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:51:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul7.u.washington.edu (root@saul7.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.2]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id NAA28492; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:50:49 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul7.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id NAA05979; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:50:45 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Ben Smithurst cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: shells, users and X In-Reply-To: <19980922200428.C6192@scientia.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote: >Jason C. Wells wrote: > >> As a side note, it is unadvisable to make root's shell bash in >> /etc/passwd. >Why should you need the fixit disk if your root shell is fucked? Just >type `-s' at the boot prompt and it will let you start plain old >/bin/sh. (Unless you've knackered that one as well :-) This does make sense. I do not recall why -s did not work, but I do recall that it did not. I most likely "knackered" sh some time prior to my trouble and was unable to figure which of my tinkerings broke it. As I think about it, I may even have deleted sh back in my early days because I figured one shell (/bin/bash with sh linked to it.) was good enough. Shortly after this I learned about the dynamic linking in bash. Imagine my dismay when -s did not work and I didn't have a fixit flop. :-O At least I still had a phone to call a buddy with an internet connection. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message