51 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-newbiesRe: Newbie tip| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Darren Wiebe | May 11, 1999 9:50 am | |
| G. Adam Stanislav | May 11, 1999 1:24 pm | |
| unkn...@riverstyx.net | May 11, 1999 1:51 pm | |
| Dan Langille | May 11, 1999 2:01 pm | |
| unkn...@riverstyx.net | May 11, 1999 3:03 pm | |
| G. Adam Stanislav | May 11, 1999 3:46 pm | |
| Eric Hodel | May 11, 1999 7:13 pm | |
| Rick Hamell | May 11, 1999 7:17 pm | |
| unkn...@riverstyx.net | May 12, 1999 8:23 pm | |
| unkn...@riverstyx.net | May 12, 1999 8:29 pm | |
| Sue Blake | May 12, 1999 8:42 pm | |
| unkn...@riverstyx.net | May 12, 1999 9:21 pm | |
| G. Adam Stanislav | May 13, 1999 8:11 am | |
| unkn...@riverstyx.net | May 13, 1999 11:49 am | |
| K. Marsh | May 13, 1999 12:06 pm | |
| unkn...@riverstyx.net | May 13, 1999 1:27 pm | |
| The Classiest Man Alive | May 13, 1999 2:00 pm | |
| Sue Blake | May 13, 1999 2:43 pm | |
| unkn...@riverstyx.net | May 13, 1999 3:32 pm | |
| G. Adam Stanislav | May 13, 1999 4:45 pm | |
| rick hamell | May 13, 1999 7:19 pm | |
| Eric Hodel | May 13, 1999 8:02 pm | |
| Alex Kapranoff | May 14, 1999 12:34 am | |
| G. Adam Stanislav | May 14, 1999 6:41 am | |
| G. Adam Stanislav | May 14, 1999 4:46 pm | |
| Sue Blake | May 14, 1999 5:30 pm | |
| Alex Kapranoff | May 15, 1999 1:21 am | |
| G. Adam Stanislav | May 15, 1999 9:04 am | |
| G. Adam Stanislav | May 15, 1999 9:09 am | |
| Tim Vanderhoek | May 15, 1999 2:18 pm | |
| Alex Kapranoff | May 16, 1999 12:42 am | |
| G. Adam Stanislav | May 16, 1999 7:20 am | |
| Adam Szilveszter | May 16, 1999 7:50 am | |
| G. Adam Stanislav | May 16, 1999 11:45 am | |
| Adam Szilveszter | May 16, 1999 1:00 pm | |
| G. Adam Stanislav | May 16, 1999 3:03 pm | |
| Adam Szilveszter | May 16, 1999 11:19 pm | |
| Takeshi Otsuki | May 16, 1999 11:19 pm | |
| Jukka Simila | May 17, 1999 1:25 am | |
| Jukka Simila | May 17, 1999 9:28 am | |
| Adam Szilveszter | May 17, 1999 9:56 am | |
| unkn...@riverstyx.net | May 17, 1999 1:07 pm | |
| David Wolfskill | May 17, 1999 3:35 pm | |
| G. Adam Stanislav | May 17, 1999 3:43 pm | |
| Bill Swingle | May 17, 1999 4:35 pm | |
| unkn...@riverstyx.net | May 17, 1999 4:39 pm | |
| Sue Blake | May 17, 1999 4:40 pm | |
| unkn...@riverstyx.net | May 17, 1999 4:46 pm | |
| Crist J. Clark | May 17, 1999 6:52 pm | |
| Laurence Berland | May 17, 1999 7:42 pm | |
| Alex Kapranoff | May 17, 1999 9:15 pm |
| Subject: | Re: Newbie tip | |
|---|---|---|
| From: | Adam Szilveszter (szi...@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu) | |
| Date: | May 16, 1999 1:00:59 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-newbies | |
Hi!
On Sun, 16 May 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
Consider trying bash (the shell of choice for most Linux distribs) or tcsh, all of which are available in the /usr/ports/shells directory.
Ah! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Koszonom szepen!!!
:-))))) It's so nice when it turns out that so many people speak some Hungarian!!!! You're welcome!
Caution: As many have said here already, don't change the root shell to anything other from sh or csh because that's a really bad idea.
Why is it a bad idea?
Well, because each of these is installed under /usr/local and there are high chances that these are not on the root filesystem. Therefore, if something goes wrong and you have to boot single-user with only root mounted (like me when I messed up my /etc/fstab) then you will not have tcsh around. As far as I know, the system falls back on /bin/sh in those cases but I don't know for sure. So, in order to be able to use my usual things (like config files) even in these cases, I kept root's shell as csh and use bash for normal users. (Then at least I will notice that I'm running as root and switch back to normal user ASAP because of the inconvenience:-) Another method to try and get you out of the habit of logging in as root when it is not needed:-)))))) But there are other gurus who maybe can say it more precisely here or on `questions'.
After all, I'm also quite new to this ( have had FreeBSD for about 3 months) and besides not even specializing in computers or informatics. So I have to be quiet and believe what the pros say until I'm cute enough to figure out on my own:-)))))))))))
I hope it helps.
Yes, it did. Thanks again!
Adam
All the best!
Szilveszter
Szeged University Hungary
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