On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:50:14AM -0300, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > Paul de Weerd wrote: > > > Don't change root's shell. > > > > > > It's set to a static shell (/bin/ksh these days) for a reason. > > > > > Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell > static. I use the bash-static from packages, and hadn't any problems. I > think that booting in single and cleaning some trash, might solve the > problem. Also you might want to consider installing the bash-static. > > My 2 cents,
If you change it, fine. But don't tell others that this is not a problem. It can be a very big one if a critical box is 500km away in some datacenter and your remote upgrade failed because you removed all packages without thinking that you still need to keep bash... If you don't believe me that these things happen, search the archive. Btw: the static flavor was removed: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/shells/bash/Makefile.diff?r1=1.34&r2=1.35&f=h Tobias > -- > Giancarlo Razzolini > Linux User 172199 > Moleque Sem Conteudo Numero #002 > Slackware Current > OpenBSD Stable > Snike Tecnologia em Informatica > 4386 2A6F FFD4 4D5F 5842 6EA0 7ABE BBAB 9C0E 6B85 > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which > had a name of signature.asc]
