Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ceres.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu!hamilton Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: tcsh for root -- ok or not? Message-ID: From: hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu (Jon Hamilton) Date: 9 Apr 91 00:58:19 GMT Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) References: <1991Apr8.033015.14768@athena.mit.edu> Distribution: comp.unix.shell Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Lines: 38 jc@condor.bu.edu (James Cameron) writes: >>>>>> On 8 Apr 91 03:30:15 GMT, jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) said: >jik> In article , gplan@sun9.aer.com (George Planansky) writes: >jik> |> I'd like to use tcsh as root's shell (specified in the passwd file entry). >jik> |> Will that cause me problems? >jik> I see no problem with this (we do it here). Make sure your tcsh binary is >jik> in /etc/shells, though. >jik> Jonathan Kamens USnail: >The only "problem" with using tcsh as the default root shell is that >when you want to upgrade your operating system, the new one might not >come with tcsh (at least SunOS has yet to do so.) So, just remember >to change your shell before the upgrade and things are fine...otherwise >root won't be able to log in multi-user. On my machine (running A/UX), if your login shell can't be started for some reason (disk not mounted or file not present, whatever), you get a message to the effect "can't exec /usr/local/bin/tcsh, exec'ing /bin/sh instead.", and it proceeds to start the bourne shell instead. This only occurs for root. >-- > -- James Cameron (jc@raven.bu.edu) >Signal Processing and Interpretation Lab. Boston, Mass (617) 353-2879 >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >"But to risk we must, for the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. For >the man or woman who risks nothing, has nothing, does nothing, is nothing." > (Quote from the eulogy for the late Christa McAuliffe.) -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu " I feel a lot more like I do now that I did before I got here " - can't remember who