Newbieish Desktop Questions

[Kristian Holdich]

On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 06:22, Danny MacMillan wrote:
> If your concern is that you won't be able to log in to single-user mode,
> consider that you will be prompted for a shell in any case (at least I
> am).  If your concern is that you would like to have bash available in
> single user mode as well, make sure it is statically linked.  If you will
> be installing from ports, the following should work (if I'm reading the
> Makefile correctly):
> 
> cd /usr/ports/shells/bash2
> make -DWANT_STATIC_BASH install clean

That makes sense, will double check it next time I do a reboot. I don't
care about having bash in single user mode, just prefer it in day to day
use.

It's been a while since I've used *BSD but seem to remember some other
Unixes were less forgiving...