Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 22:28:21 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cons25 && (midc, /stand/sysinstall, etc) Message-ID: <199912292128.WAA13803@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Duke Normandin wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
> >If you want the screen to be cleared and repainted in your
> >colors, maybe you should append ``clear'' after the vidcontrol
> >command in the script.
>
> That's what I wanted -- and did, prior to my post. It now works as I
> expected. I just assumed that ' midc "$@" ' would have done it all. Case
> closed!!
Nice to hear that.
> >No. You don't write scripts in csh; it's evil. :-)
>
> An "evil" shell as the default for root? Can't help the learning curve,
> can it! :-)
No, writing scripts in csh is evil. Whether using csh as an
interactive shell is evil, is debatable...
I think the fact that root's login shell is a csh has mainly
historical (hysterical...) reasons. Personally, I have an
alias "su" --> "su -m", so I get the same shell as root that
i have as normal user (which happens to be zsh), without
having to change root's login shell in the passwd file (which
could have undesirable side effects).
A "bare bones" FreeBSD only has sh and csh, and of those two
I'd definitely prefer sh (for example in single-user mode, I
always use sh, not csh). It has history and line-editing
features, so there's really no reason to resort to csh's
crappyness. Well OK, sh is missing a filename completion...
Hoping not to start a flamewar... :-)
Regards
Oliver
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