make buildworld does nothing

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 21 17:21:16 UTC 2006


Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
>  > Tom Hummel wrote:
>  > > alright, it was bash :( stupid shell.
>  > 
>  > Um, sorry, let's not blame the shell for the BCK (between chair and
>  > keyboard) problem. Lots of us use bash as our everyday shell (for privileged
>  > and unprivileged users) without the kinds of problems you described. The
>  > first thing I do when I install a new freebsd machine is to change root's
>  > shell to /bin/sh, and copy over my customized .profile which either execs
>  > bash if it finds it, or sets up sh with my aliases, etc.
> 
> That's what "su -m" is good for.  

There are actually some things in root's environment that I want to be
different, so that doesn't work for me.

Doug

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