2009/5/14 Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com>: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:38:30AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: >> 2009/5/13 Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net>: >> > On Wednesday 13 May 2009 11:34:43 Michael Powell wrote: >> > >> >> Kind of like how those coming over from a >> >> Linux environment all seem to want to change root's shell to bash, it >> >> serves no purpose except foot-shooting. >> > >> > - csh cannot redirect stderr seperately from stdout >> > - on pipes the exit status from the first command is the exit status of the >> > total command >> > - will not expand matches without a user provided part, for *every* >> > component >> > of a path >> > >> > There's plenty of reasons not to use csh and if you know what you're doing, >> > BSD lets you. And no, I don't want to type exec zsh when I'm finally logged >> > into the box that has a load of 100+. >> >> I think the problem with that is he meant changing the root shell to >> /usr/local/bin/bash. You're better off using /bin/sh if you want a >> Bourne-type shell, or using toor with /usr/local/bin/bash. > > I've never understood the resistance to just use toor instead of root if > one wants a nonstandard administrative shell. >
People don't seem to understand that toor and root are equivalent. Or their muscle memory says 'root'! -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
