From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 17:25:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.cybersurf.net (smtp1.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98DFC15753 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 17:25:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 01031149@3web.net) Received: from webserver ([209.197.157.173]) by smtp1.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.05) with SMTP id FNJ5BX00.0TX for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:26:21 -0700 Message-ID: <006801bf526d$5e5c8da0$5c9ac5d1@webserver> From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: Subject: Re: cons25 && (midc, /stand/sysinstall, etc) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 17:49:16 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 1:28 PM Subject: Re: cons25 && (midc, /stand/sysinstall, etc) >Duke Normandin wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > > From: Oliver Fromme > > >If you want the screen to be cleared and repainted in your > > >colors, maybe you should append ``clear'' after the vidcontrol > > >command in the script. > > > > That's what I wanted -- and did, prior to my post. It now works as I > > expected. I just assumed that ' midc "$@" ' 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). %^&)!*^ ...... now I have to read up on "su" >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... :-) So my next minefield will be "su"ing to either sh or bash. I've never seen zsh. regards......duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message