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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!unlisys!cs.tu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!IN-Berlin.DE!fub!mind.de!nostromo.in-berlin.de!ripley From: ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (H. Eckert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Changing the default shell for ... Date: 14 Mar 1997 00:02:48 GMT Organization: Private access site (FreeBSD 2.1-R), Berlin, Germany, Europe Lines: 23 Message-ID: <slrn5ih5d8.ohk.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> References: <01bbede1$59bcf1c0$664c1bcc@tony.gcr1.com> <331CC761.4893@OntheNet.com.au> <5g4l1g$t03@nexp.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37132 wself@news.crl.com (wself): > Although it has already been mentioned, i'll say it again. The shell for > root should be in /bin. Why? /usr/local/bin may not be there when you > need it. This is not the only reason I'd rather stay with /bin/sh and type "exec tcsh" after the su: [665] % file `which tcsh` /usr/local/bin/tcsh: FreeBSD/i386 demand paged dynamically linked executable [666] % file `which sh` /bin/sh: FreeBSD/i386 demand paged executable You really do want to have a statically linked shell for root. Greetings, Ripley -- H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany ISO 8859-1: Ä=Ae, Ö=Oe, Ü=Ue, ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue, ß=sz. "(Technobabbel)" (Jetrel) - "Müssen wir uns diesen Schwachsinn wirklich anhören?" (Neelix)