From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 15:18:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sawasdee.cc.columbia.edu (sawasdee.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.59.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E78715C1A for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 15:18:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (dialup-10-11.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.36.231]) by sawasdee.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA00290; Tue, 11 May 1999 18:17:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3738AC29.35E46875@confusion.net> Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:16:09 -0400 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Donald Wilde Cc: Todd Backman , "James A. Mutter" , phrotos@email.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to change the shell? References: <37381DF2.8B19E36@thuntek.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've heard that many times, is there any reason not to just put tcsh, bash, etc on the root partition? > > > The only problem with this is that if the machine can't mount your disks > and you need to work in single-user mode, bash won't run. csh and sh are > in the root partition /, so they're available. If the machine can't load > bash for you, it will fall back to sh, so I've never had a problem doing > the simple things I need to do in SU mode. I find that the benefits of > having shell consistency far outweigh the downside. I've got enough to > learn in this lifetime without having to deal with csh and vi too! > -- > Don Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" > Wilde Media > 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 > Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message