bash can not find most of my commands
Hi,
I have changed my shell from csh to bash ...
But after that I have to call reboot like /sbin/reboot.
How can I change that without changing the shell. :)
my /root/.profile:
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
HOME=/root
export HOME
TERM=${TERM:-cons25}
export TERM
PAGER=more
export PAGER
Regards,
Alokat
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Re: bash can not find most of my commands
2011-02-22 17:40, Alokat skrev:
Hi,
I have changed my shell from csh to bash ...
Why?
Do you use root as your regular login?
But after that I have to call reboot like /sbin/reboot.
How can I change that without changing the shell. :)
my /root/.profile:
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
HOME=/root
export HOME
TERM=${TERM:-cons25}
export TERM
PAGER=more
export PAGER
Regards,
Alokat
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Re: bash can not find most of my commands
On 02/22/11 17:44, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
2011-02-22 17:40, Alokat skrev:
Hi,
I have changed my shell from csh to bash ...
Why?
Do you use root as your regular login?
But after that I have to call reboot like /sbin/reboot.
How can I change that without changing the shell. :)
my /root/.profile:
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
HOME=/root
export HOME
TERM=${TERM:-cons25}
export TERM
PAGER=more
export PAGER
Regards,
Alokat
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It's just for example ... :)
I have a non root login for regular stuff.
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Re: bash can not find most of my commands
On 22/02/2011 16:40, Alokat wrote: Hi, I have changed my shell from csh to bash ... But after that I have to call reboot like /sbin/reboot. How can I change that without changing the shell. :) don't change your root shell! csh is in the base system so is safe and will always* work, bash is a port and gets updated regularly, there's been at least one occasion when my bash upgrade failed and i couln't login as root. very frustrating.. I just get used to changing to bash after that, much safer! Paul. -- - Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting - t: 0131 5548070 m: 07534206249 e: p...@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com - IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bash can not find most of my commands
2011-02-22 17:47, Alokat skrev:
On 02/22/11 17:44, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
2011-02-22 17:40, Alokat skrev:
Hi,
I have changed my shell from csh to bash ...
Why?
Do you use root as your regular login?
But after that I have to call reboot like /sbin/reboot.
How can I change that without changing the shell. :)
my /root/.profile:
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
HOME=/root
export HOME
TERM=${TERM:-cons25}
export TERM
PAGER=more
export PAGER
Regards,
Alokat
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It's just for example ... :)
I have a non root login for regular stuff.
To me the .profile looks ok, and I can't really say why it doesn't work.
However, do not use a shell that's not in the base system for root. Some
would point security issues, but I don't know much about those when it
comes to bash, however, if you need to boot into single user, you may
get into troubles with a shell not in base.
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Re: bash can not find most of my commands
On 02/22/11 17:49, Paul Macdonald wrote: On 22/02/2011 16:40, Alokat wrote: Hi, I have changed my shell from csh to bash ... But after that I have to call reboot like /sbin/reboot. How can I change that without changing the shell. :) don't change your root shell! csh is in the base system so is safe and will always* work, bash is a port and gets updated regularly, there's been at least one occasion when my bash upgrade failed and i couln't login as root. very frustrating.. I just get used to changing to bash after that, much safer! Paul. Paul has satisfied me. I have changed back to csh. Thank for help. Regards, alokat ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bash can not find most of my commands
Alokat wrote: On 02/22/11 17:49, Paul Macdonald wrote: On 22/02/2011 16:40, Alokat wrote: Hi, I have changed my shell from csh to bash ... But after that I have to call reboot like /sbin/reboot. How can I change that without changing the shell. :) don't change your root shell! csh is in the base system so is safe and will always* work, bash is a port and gets updated regularly, there's been at least one occasion when my bash upgrade failed and i couln't login as root. very frustrating.. I just get used to changing to bash after that, much safer! Paul. Paul has satisfied me. I have changed back to csh. Thank for help. Regards, alokat And if you use bash after login or anytime, your original problem remains. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bash can not find most of my commands
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:08:30PM -0500, Randy Ramsdell thus spake: Alokat wrote: On 02/22/11 17:49, Paul Macdonald wrote: On 22/02/2011 16:40, Alokat wrote: Hi, I have changed my shell from csh to bash ... But after that I have to call reboot like /sbin/reboot. How can I change that without changing the shell. :) don't change your root shell! csh is in the base system so is safe and will always* work, bash is a port and gets updated regularly, there's been at least one occasion when my bash upgrade failed and i couln't login as root. very frustrating.. I just get used to changing to bash after that, much safer! Paul. Paul has satisfied me. I have changed back to csh. Thank for help. Regards, alokat And if you use bash after login or anytime, your original problem remains. This has to do with your path, and it is known good practice to use full paths, as well. -jgh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bash can not find most of my commands
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Alokat wrote: Paul has satisfied me. I have changed back to csh. If you want to run as root and use bash, well, that is what the user toor is for (examine master.passwd -- use vipw to edit master.passwd to enter a password for toor and the path to bash for toor, but set EDITOR first if you are not comfortable with vi). If you activate toor, you can log in as toor, use bash, and yet you are root (try whoami as toor). This preserves the root login for emergencies when /usr may not be mounted. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bash can not find most of my commands
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Paul Macdonald wrote: On 22/02/2011 16:40, Alokat wrote: Hi, I have changed my shell from csh to bash ... But after that I have to call reboot like /sbin/reboot. How can I change that without changing the shell. :) don't change your root shell! csh is in the base system so is safe and will always* work, bash is a port and gets updated regularly, there's been at least one occasion when my bash upgrade failed and i couln't login as root. very frustrating.. I just get used to changing to bash after that, much safer! Consider running bash from .cshrc. Less breakable than changing root's shell, but still kind of automatic. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bash can not find most of my commands
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 05:58:22PM +0100, Alokat wrote: Paul has satisfied me. I have changed back to csh. Your system should have a toor account as well. It is just a second root account, whose essential purpose is to provide a root account that you can fiddle with to your heart's content without endangering the main root account. Note that the toor account can break things on the system just as much as the root account; if you break the toor account itself, though, you still have access to the main root account to get yourself out of trouble. Thus, if you *really* want a superuser account with bash as its default shell, you can always use toor for that purpose. I don't much see the point in setting a superuser account to use bash anyway -- or any other account, really -- but the option is there if you must have it. Just don't change the shell for the root account itself that way; it's bad for you, with lots of fatty calories, preservatives, artificial sweeteners, and other stuff your body should not be ingesting on a regular basis. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpQg5oXnDcAV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: bash can not find most of my commands
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Thus, if you *really* want a superuser account with bash as its default shell, you can always use toor for that purpose. I don't much see the point in setting a superuser account to use bash anyway -- or any other account, really -- but the option is there if you must have it. It turns out auto-completion with hinting and command history searching are pretty addictive if you're used to having them. :) Personally, I usually just use sudo, or run bash as my first command after gaining root powers. But it's very interesting to finally find out what toor is for. I'd always wondered. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bash can not find most of my commands
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:07:54AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: It turns out auto-completion with hinting and command history searching are pretty addictive if you're used to having them. :) I have auto-completion, and I know my environment well enough that hints aren't generally helpful. Personally, I usually just use sudo, or run bash as my first command after gaining root powers. But it's very interesting to finally find out what toor is for. I'd always wondered. Glad to be of some help. Just do us all a favor; don't write code in bash. Use Bourne shell (sh, not bash), or a real programming language (Perl, Ruby, Python, whatever). The bash option essentially tries to capture the power of such real languages, but does a very bad job of it -- and gives up the nigh-universal portability across Unix-like systems to do so. It's the worst of all worlds. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpwBJdOKArNp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: bash can not find most of my commands
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Just do us all a favor; don't write code in bash. Yeah, I try to avoid bash-specific syntax unless it's for one-off scripts. csh suffers the same kinds of problems; I only write csh code under extreme duress, like when forced to maintain the system-wide csh.login script. ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bash can not find most of my commands
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 01:10:20PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: Yeah, I try to avoid bash-specific syntax unless it's for one-off scripts. csh suffers the same kinds of problems; I only write csh code under extreme duress, like when forced to maintain the system-wide csh.login script. ;) I often use tcsh as an interactive shell, but I do not use it for shell scripts. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpW4w3idg6aw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: bash can not find most of my commands
Quoth David Brodbeck on Tuesday, 22 February 2011: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Just do us all a favor; don't write code in bash. What's with all the bash bashing? Sorry, couldn't resist. Yeah, I try to avoid bash-specific syntax unless it's for one-off scripts. csh suffers the same kinds of problems; I only write csh code under extreme duress, like when forced to maintain the system-wide csh.login script. ;) At least sh scripts will execute correctly under bash -- they don't always under csh/tcsh. I like zsh for a command-line shell, but when writing scripts for general usage I stick with the sh-compatibile subset of capabilities, and I enforce that on myself with the #!/bin/sh shebang. If I need more than what that can gracefully do, I usually run to the arms of Ruby. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://chipsquips.com | http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com pgpISYvMSTcjg.pgp Description: PGP signature
