Subject: Re: using tcsh as default root shell
To: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/22/2000 19:22:58
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 06:16:37PM -0500, Bob Nestor wrote:
> gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> 
> >What've you all suddenly got against the Bourne shell? It's still the
> >default, no?
> 
> Really?  All the systems I've worked on csh was the default for root 
> which is what the original poster was trying to change.  From what I've 
> seen it's a mixed bag of what the "default" shell is for user accounts 
> though and seem to be more up to the SysAdmin than anything else.

Erg, right. root gets /bin/csh, toor gets /bin/sh. I just change it
quickly, delete the spare UID 0 account, and forget the whole
experience.

Bleh. csh. Only thing I like is the !! command history editing. And
that exists in zsh, along with my vi-keys-on-command-line.

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net