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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!zpr.uni-koeln.de!se From: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New User Admin Date: 9 Jan 1996 21:54:36 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 29 Sender: se@Sysiphos (Stefan Esser) Message-ID: <4cuo6s$9kv@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <4caoal$bpa@news2.realtime.net> <4cth1n$cf6@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> <4ctlao$15iq@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de To: schweikh@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt) In article <4ctlao$15iq@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>, schweikh@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt) writes: |> Another caveat: If |> - you are root and |> - you make bash your login shell and |> - bash is using the shared libraries (use ldd `which bash` to find out) |> |> then be sure to have the shared libraries on the root file system |> (they are not if you made /usr a separate partition). You will |> otherwise have some problems when during boot up |> not all file systems can be mounted. Well, and for exactly this reason the single user shell is /bin/sh and NOT the root shell specified in the password file ... |> I once ran into this, when I substituted /bin/sh with bash |> [Init wanted to fork a /bin/sh to process /etc/rc, which |> required shared libs, which we're on /usr, which was only |> mounted _after_ /etc/rc had been processed. Hmm, but this was not on FreeBSD, I suppose ? Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>