From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 11:53:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25062 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 11:53:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alexanderwohl.complete.org (ict161.southwind.net [206.53.100.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24990 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 11:52:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgoerzen@alexanderwohl.complete.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alexanderwohl.complete.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA00704; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:51:10 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jgoerzen@alexanderwohl.complete.org) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:51:10 -0600 (CST) From: John Goerzen X-Sender: jgoerzen@alexanderwohl To: Tom Mullen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing bash 2.0 In-Reply-To: <34D834DF.3A5E@seti.tec.sd.us> 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 X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" Note that Bash 2.0 has some bugs in it. I advise you to avoid it and use bash 2.1 instead. One particularly annoying problem will cause Netscape to have difficulties if bash is your login shell. John On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Tom Mullen wrote: > We have FreeBSD 2.2.2 installed on a computer, we didn't install the > bash shell. We want to install the bash 2.0 shell. We have the > bash2_0.tgz file in the /usr/ports/shells directory, what do we need to > do to get this installed? > > Thank you >