From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 14:36:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA26780 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 14:36:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.aros.net (root@shell.aros.net [205.164.111.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA26767 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 14:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from angio@localhost) by shell.aros.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA11151; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 15:36:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199608302136.PAA11151@shell.aros.net> Subject: Re: Changing roots shell, what considerations? To: ejs@bfd.com (Eric J. Schwertfeger) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 15:36:38 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Eric J. Schwertfeger" at "Aug 30, 96 12:34:46 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk No problems here. Just be sure that whatever shell you use for root, it's a statically linked binary that's on the root partition. ;) -Dave Lo and behold, Eric J. Schwertfeger once said: > I tend to get annoyed when my fingers automatically type constructs that > don't work under csh, and was wondering what the ramifications of changing > root's shell to use /bin/sh as its default shell instead of csh. > > Has anyone done this and had problems? done it and didn't? I won't ask > if anyone has an opinion, but I'll listen to them too :-) > -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'."