On Friday 24 December 2004 10:52 am, Josh Paetzel wrote: <-snip-> > > I've always been curious as to why you can't(shouldn't?) just change > the shell that root uses.
I think it has to do with the fact that some shells executables are in /bin and others are in /usr/local/bin. Root users should use a shell in /bin so that if something goes wrong and the /usr partition doesn't get mounted during bootup, root can still use its default shell. Andrew Gould _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
