From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Sep 17 7:13:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from joe.halenet.com.au (joe.halenet.com.au [203.37.141.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5779814F08 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 07:13:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from donh@halenet.com.au) Received: from igor (modem-123-st.halenet.com.au [203.55.33.123]) by joe.halenet.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id AAA26794 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:21:40 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from donh@halenet.com.au) Message-ID: <004e01bf00b2$84d51900$7b2137cb@igor> From: "Don Hansford" To: References: <19990917031515.4383B14DDB@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Changing shell Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:15:30 +1000 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 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I disagree, changing from csh to bash can only be described as A Good Thing! Sam, type the following chsh in the resulting file (.profile) change /bin/sh to /usr/local/bin/bash (assuming, of course, that you have loaded bash through either the install, or the /stand/sysinstall routine Regards Igor Double your drive space - delete Windows! ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Henry To: Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 1:15 PM Subject: Re: Changing shell > > > Does anyone know how to change the root shell from csh to bash? > > It is my understanding that changing root's shell is A Bad Thing. > You shouldn't be running as root often enough for it to be an > inconvenience anyway. > > There is an account "toor" which also has UID 0, and uses bash > as it's login shell. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message