sysrc bug

Roger Marquis marquis at roble.com
Mon May 31 23:08:05 UTC 2021


> Also, changing the root shell is bad for many reasons and I'm not
> surprised that something doesn't work.

Surprised this old myth is still being repeated.  Having used various
root shells in FreeBSD and other Unux/Linux systems for decades I have to
ask specifically what said reasons are, particularly considering
/usr/sbin/sysrc starts with "#!/bin/sh" (as does and should every system
shell script).

Roger Marquis


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