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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: tromey@redhat.com, overseers@sources.redhat.com, ac131313@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: shell
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 11:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010508145807.A25966@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sieltzogre.fsf@daffy.airs.com>

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:08:37AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
>
>> Convention has:
>> 	root csh/tcsh
>> 	toor sh/zsh
>> 
>> and on my local machines, there is the account:
>> 	boor bash
>> 
>> 
>> changing the shell to an account as fundamental as root may not be a
>> good thing.
>
>I'm not sure what convention this is.  On every Linux machine I've
>seen, root uses bash.  On old fashioned Unix systems I've seen, root
>uses /bin/sh.

That is my experience too.

cgf

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-08 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-07 14:34 shell Tom Tromey
2001-05-07 14:43 ` shell Christopher Faylor
2001-05-09 12:08   ` shell Angela Marie Thomas
2001-05-09 12:58     ` shell Christopher Faylor
2001-05-09 13:03       ` shell Tom Tromey
2001-05-10 16:52         ` shell Angela Marie Thomas
2001-05-10 17:01           ` shell Phil Edwards
2001-05-10 17:34           ` shell Christopher Faylor
2001-05-07 14:44 ` shell Jason Molenda
2001-05-07 14:48   ` shell Christopher Faylor
2001-05-07 14:50     ` shell Christopher Faylor
2001-05-07 21:43   ` shell law
2001-05-07 14:51 ` shell Joseph S. Myers
2001-05-07 21:32   ` shell Christopher Faylor
2001-05-08 11:03 ` shell Andrew Cagney
2001-05-08 11:08   ` shell Ian Lance Taylor
2001-05-08 11:59     ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2001-05-09  3:23     ` shell Gerald Pfeifer
2001-05-08 11:10   ` shell Per Bothner
2001-05-08 11:12   ` shell Phil Edwards

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