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Re: shells & re: profile



On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Amos Shapira wrote:


Not to mention the fact some of your libraries might get fucked, and even
if on the `/' fs, since both tcsh/bash are linked with shared libs, they
wont work... Well, we already had that discussion about making static
versions of whatever the root shell is, and have it on the root fs, and
not linked to /usr/bin/whatever.

--Ariel


> On Thu, February 11 1999, Ben Nes Michael <miki@canaan.co.il> wrote:
> |Many times i changed the root shell to tcsh
> |Is it bad or can produce problems ?
> 
> If your tcsh's binary is not on the root partition then it is a bit
> more valunrable to crashes (the machine goes south, you try to login
> to single user and can't).It's a bit less likely if your shell is in
> the root partition (and /bin/sh already must be there for the boot
> scripts).
> 
> --Amos
> 
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