Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 15:56:08 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@netwalk.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to change the shell? Message-ID: <19990511155608.A17288@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905111824590.402-100000@insomnia.local.net>; from James A. Mutter on Tue, May 11, 1999 at 06:25:57PM -0400 References: <3738AC29.35E46875@confusion.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905111824590.402-100000@insomnia.local.net>
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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 <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * 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
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