Re: adduser .. revisited, an apology .. oh come on
Adding a user should not be rocket science, If the old time Bill Joy lovers would realise that 'csh sucks big time, we may avoid a lot of problems. If anyone can prove to me that csh is superior in any respect to bash, then please tell me. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: adduser .. revisited, an apology .. oh come on
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 19:16:31 +0100 Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adding a user should not be rocket science, It isn't. If the old time Bill Joy lovers would realise that 'csh sucks big time, we may avoid a lot of problems. You can always use /bin/sh, and yes, it does history (set -o emacs) If anyone can prove to me that csh is superior in any respect to bash, then please tell me. -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 841916 Dec 31 15:16 /bin/tcsh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1036396 Nov 17 13:30 /usr/local/bin/bash tcsh is good enough for interactive use (others like zsh as well), and many people have grown to hate bash for one very simple reason. In another attempt at 'embrace and extend', GNU added some features to plain sh that remained functional even when invoked as /bin/sh. That lead to broken scripts that only ran on GNU/Linux systems. Now I feel fad for feeding a troll, let this thread die already :) Happy new year. -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk Of course it runs NetBSD! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: adduser .. revisited, an apology .. oh come on
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 18:30, Miguel Mendez wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 19:16:31 +0100 Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adding a user should not be rocket science, It isn't. If the old time Bill Joy lovers would realise that 'csh sucks big time, we may avoid a lot of problems. You can always use /bin/sh, and yes, it does history (set -o emacs) If anyone can prove to me that csh is superior in any respect to bash, then please tell me. -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 841916 Dec 31 15:16 /bin/tcsh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1036396 Nov 17 13:30 /usr/local/bin/bash tcsh is good enough for interactive use (others like zsh as well), and many people have grown to hate bash for one very simple reason. In another attempt at 'embrace and extend', GNU added some features to plain sh that remained functional even when invoked as /bin/sh. That lead to broken scripts that only ran on GNU/Linux systems. Now I feel fad for feeding a troll, let this thread die already :) Even the original poster has requested (two days ago) that this thread be killed off. Why is questions still being cc'd on this? Regards, Stacey Happy new year. -- Stacey Roberts B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science Web: www.vickiandstacey.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
