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Date:      Mon, 9 May 2005 21:43:20 +0200
From:      Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>
To:        "/dev/null" <null@dnswatch.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: root's shell (Was: Re: boot banner project)
Message-ID:  <200505092143.24101.lofi@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <1979.216.177.243.38.1115666892.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com>
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On Monday, 9. May 2005 21:28, /dev/null wrote:

> He *boldly* asks without so much as the smallest amount of research -
> 1.)
> Would it be considered alot of trouble to make (t)csh POSIX compliant?

Prolly.

> 2.)
> Would it be considered difficult or poor practice to make root' shell an
> option during install?

Well, toor exists. Activate it and give it any shell you want, case closed.=
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has been said before, a POSIX-sh compatible shell for root is a red herring=
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slap #!/bin/sh in front of your scripts and be done with it.

The omnipresence of bash in Linux at least hasn't done a great service to=20
script portability in my experience (you wouldn't think porting KDE isn't a=
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likely opportunity to be confronted with bad scripting, but I had to learn=
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otherwise the hard way. Bash makes it way to easy to write scripts that wil=
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only work when /bin/sh is really /bin/bash).

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