From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>, <tromey@redhat.com>, Overseers List <overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: shell
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 03:23:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105091215400.4126-100000@taygeta.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <sieltzogre.fsf@daffy.airs.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-q2/msg00267.html

On 8 May 2001, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 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.

Just for folklore:

  taygeta[50]:~% uname -rs
  FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE

  taygeta[51]:~% finger root
  Login: root                             Name: Charlie Root
  Directory: /root                        Shell: /bin/csh
  Last login Tue May  8 13:53 (CEST) on ttyv0
  Mail last read Fri Sep 15 12:10 2000 (CEST)
  No Plan.

  (Where /bin/csh is actually /bin/tcsh.)

  taygeta[52]:~% finger toor
  Login: toor                             Name: Bourne-again Superuser
  Directory: /root                        Shell: /bin/sh
  Last login Tue May  8 13:53 (CEST) on ttyv0
  No Mail.
  No Plan.

Gerald
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Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/