Subject: Re: Yes, I'm an idiot
To: Scott Smith <smelly@spy.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/15/1997 11:13:03
> 
> 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'.

I agree with you, except for the fact that NetBSD ships w/ root's shell
being /bin/csh. ;-)

Take care,

Bill