Checking On Default Shell

Allan Jude allanjude at freebsd.org
Wed Sep 9 21:13:20 UTC 2015


On 2015-09-09 16:51, Steven Crone wrote:
> Author/Updater:
> 
> The "FreeBSD Quickstart Guide for Linux® Users” on Chapter 2 “Default Shell” references the root default shell as “tcsh" - however, on my latest clean install I noted it was “/bin/csh” which appeared odd to me - which is the reason I checked the quick guide.
> 
> Just wanted to make sure that had actually changed in release (10.2 amd64) and the guide was wrong; or, did I get a corrupt installer?
> 
> Steven Crone
> cronetechsl at gmail.com
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In this case, it is just a bit of confusion. The version of csh in
FreeBSD is actually just tcsh, but when it sees itself started as csh,
it acts like csh.

-- 
Allan Jude

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