Scott Smith wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, John Albers Mead wrote:
> 
> > Late last night, I got NetBSD installed on a IIci.  In my enthusiasm, I
> > began installing apps (apache, perl, etc...) and tcsh.  I tried to change
> > the root shell to tcsh before I realized that I should probably set up
> 
> 	Um, *never* *ever* set root's shell to anything but /bin/sh.
> For one, most shells don't get linked statically to whatever shared libraries
> they use.  Two: sh is a tried and true shell, and is generally more stable and
> reliable than any other shell.  If you want to use tcsh then when you su to 
> root, do `exec /usr/local/bin/tcsh'.

It's a lot easier to simply alias 'su' to 'su -m'.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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