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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.new-york.net!ritz.mordor.com!bet From: bet@ritz.mordor.com (Bennett Todd) Subject: Re: /bin/sh isn't Bourne shell Organization: Mordor International - Jersey City, NJ Message-ID: <DM4AIB.Jpx@ritz.mordor.com> References: <4ekrik$rlf@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> <4enl74$ifr@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> <DM1x4C.GML@deshaw.com> <4eo70i$o7j@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 22:01:23 GMT Lines: 20 >If you make root's login shell /bin/sh on a FreeBSD-2.1.0-R system, and use >short aliases such as "j" or "l", you are going to find that things break. >And the "MAKEDEV" script is one of the first. Sure enough. Define a pack of cutsie aliases in root's shell and you get what you deserve. Leave root's shell environment alone, lest ye break things. This is an oldie, but I guess with a bunch of new folks just starting Unix with the free ones it'd be a good idea to emphasize it in the docs; it's no longer reasonable to assume that an SA has a clue. "Doctor, it hurts when I do _this_". "So don't do _this_". -- -Bennett bet@mordor.com <URL:http://www.mordor.com/bet/>