Subject: Re: Tadpole with 1.4.2 troubles anyone?
To: None <mrd@metatronpress.com>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/25/2000 06:53:24
Matthew Ross Davis <mrd@metatronpress.com> wrote:
> > umm.. "huh?"... Unless I'm totally out to lunch, I don't think NetBSD
> > has _ever_ distributed 'bash' nor was anything other than 'csh' the
> > default root shell...
>
> I could be remembering incorrectly, but I installed 1.4 on a Sparc 2.
> /usr/local/bin/bash was the default shell for root.
By default, "/usr/local/*" is not populated by any NetBSD distribution. Hence,
by default, pointing roots shell to /usr/local/bin/bash would result in an
unbootable release. I can guarantee you that at no time has NetBSD ever
been distributed with a "/usr/local/bin/bash" shell for root.