On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 14:30, Miguel Angelo Rozsas wrote:
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 14:04, Jerry Feldman wrote:
IMHO, the primary root shell (on Linux and Unix) should be a Bourne derived shell (sh or bash).
Is there some strong reason to do that ? I mean, what is the real problem doing that ? tcsh is good as bash from this point of view, isn't ? besides historical reasons, I can't see any problem in using another shell.
I change to root only as need, to do administrative tasks, and as root, I like to have the benefits from that particular shell.
There are many scripts that run when the system is started that expect root's shell to be either sh or bash and will not run properly under tsch. Change it at your own risk. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)