From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 15:24: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pokey.local.net (arc1-68.netwalk.net [206.175.61.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5FF915903 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 15:24:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) Received: from insomnia.local.net (insomnia.local.net [192.168.2.3]) by pokey.local.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA14845; Tue, 11 May 1999 18:22:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmutter@insomnia.local.net) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:25:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@netwalk.com To: Laurence Berland Cc: Donald Wilde , Todd Backman , "James A. Mutter" , phrotos@email.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to change the shell? In-Reply-To: <3738AC29.35E46875@confusion.net> 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 Well, if you can't mount "/usr" you can't load the libraries that bash needs. No libraries, no bash. No bash, no shell. I think that's a problem. :) On Tue, 11 May 1999, Laurence Berland wrote: :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