Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Matthew Seaman thusly... That's why there is a 'toor' account -- you can use whatever shell you like with that a/c and not fear mucking up important bits of the system. ^ ^ ^ ^ What does a/c mean? account

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
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Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-16 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Nikolas Britton wrote: (...) What are the main differences between tcsh and csh?, currently I use csh, this is because it was the first shell that FreeBSD presented me when I started using it and the fact that I didn't like bash (bash is trash, hmm? lol) from linux

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
Adam wrote: In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells? On point that no one has mentioned on this list yet is that it is a good idea to have root's shell

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-16 Thread Andrew P.
Matthew Seaman wrote: Adam wrote: In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells? On point that no one has mentioned on this list yet is that it is a good

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-16 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 12/16/04 11:11 AM, Matthew Seaman sat at the `puter and typed: Adam wrote: In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells? On point that no

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, December 16, 2004 11:11:03 AM + Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On point that no one has mentioned on this list yet is that it is a good idea to have root's shell be entirely contained on the root partition of the system -- ie. not just the executable, but any shlibs it

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:11 PM -0600 12/15/04, Adam wrote: In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells? Personal preferences, mostly. In my case, my first unix accounts were

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-16 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Thursday, December 16, 2004 11:11:03 AM + Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, I take the view that the less done by the super user the better, and discourage myself to use sudo(1) preferentially and to keep su(1) sessions as short as possible

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-16 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Matthew Seaman thusly... That's why there is a 'toor' account -- you can use whatever shell you like with that a/c and not fear mucking up important bits of the system. ^ ^ ^ ^ What does a/c mean? - Parv --

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells? Because he likes it for some reason. He probably got used to using it (or sh - bash is basically an

Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-15 Thread Adam
In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells? Thanks, Adam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-15 Thread Subhro
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Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-15 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Adam wrote: In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells? That's largely a religious issue. I used csh for my first 6 years or so of

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-15 Thread Tim Aslat
In the immortal words of Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED]... In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 Because that is his shell of choice. I prefer to use TCSH for the same reason. What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-15 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Adam wrote: In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells? Thanks, Adam I like a .30-06 for deer, antelope, etc, .762[mm] for terrorists, and a .340

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Adam wrote: In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells? That's largely a religious issue. I used csh

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-15 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Nikolas Britton wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Adam wrote: In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells?