From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 15:56:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ECDD1514F for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 15:56:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA17343; Tue, 11 May 1999 15:56:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 15:56:08 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: "James A. Mutter" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to change the shell? Message-ID: <19990511155608.A17288@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <3738AC29.35E46875@confusion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from James A. Mutter on Tue, May 11, 1999 at 06:25:57PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 06:25:57PM -0400, James A. Mutter wrote: > 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. :) If you're in that situation, then you're probably working in single-user mode, and so you were prompted for the shell to load (with /bin/sh the default). The notion that it's bad to make root's shell something other than /bin/sh or /bin/csh holds little water on a FreeBSD system. That said, "su -m" is your friend. -- Matthew Hunt * Inertia is a property http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * of matter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message