Subject: Re: Prompts
To: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
From: Rasputin <rasputin@idoru.mine.nu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/13/2002 23:35:46
* Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org> [1117 18:17]:
> Just keep in mind that changing the root prompt must be done with care as 
> some utilities are on the /usr filesystem ( like /usr/bin/whoami ) so if 
> the system is booted into single user and doesn't have all the filesystems 
> mounted you can run into some odd situations.

True in general, but *BSDs tend to ask you which shell you want to run when you
enter single-user mode , so this isn't really a problem.

I find bash much easier to use than csh, and therefore safer, so I'm happy to
stick a statically-compiled copy in /bin for emergencies.

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