At 9:23 PM -0500 9/3/03, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Michael D. Spence wrote:
>
>>  1) Is there a way to do the emacs mode thing with csh, and
>
>I don't think so. With "csh", !! recalls the last command.
>
>>  2) What would happen if I changed the root shell?  I'm
>>  reluctant to do this lest I break something.
>
>Nothing; there are no consequences to changing root's shell on NetBSD.

This must be qualified by the addition of AS LONG AS THE SHELL WILL 
ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE.

For instance, if /usr/pkg is a separate partition, using a packaged 
shell as root's shell can cause issues when starting in single-user 
mode where /usr/pkg isn't mounted. This is why there's packages like 
standalone-tcsh which installs directly into /bin/.

Of course so far the discussion has been regarding NetBSD-shipped 
shells, which makes it moot, but I believe it must still be stated :).

Just my thoughts,
Mike
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