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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:30:35 +1000 (EST)
From:      andrew@ugh.net.au
To:        Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Needed: Info on shells and script writing
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970814112856.5079A-100000@depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970813133111.11463A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>

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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Annelise Anderson wrote:

>    Note: Do not change root's shell. It must be either sh or csh, because
>    otherwise you may not have a working shell when the system puts you
>    into single user mode. When you use su -m to become root, you will

When you go into single user mode, if roots shell is unavailable it
promtps you for a shell to use (type path anm,e of shell or return for
/bin/sh)....At least I think it did but I haven't been single user for a
while...

Andrew




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