From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 18:37:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 561A2150E7 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 18:37:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA23057; Tue, 11 May 1999 20:59:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 20:59:28 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein 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: <3738CFC7.DE79EA03@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 On Tue, 11 May 1999, Laurence Berland wrote: > But it probably wouldnt be a bad thing if I were to copy TCSH into /bin > and then not worry about Single user mode problems? /usr/ports/shells/tcsh % file work/tcsh-6.08.00/tcsh work/tcsh-6.08.00/tcsh: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, not stripped dynamically linked. no, that's icky. DES has a nifty trick, in his .profile he checks for the existance of his shell (zsh, cause zsh is god...) then runs it if it's available. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message