From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MpWvq-0004Ec-D9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:39:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 182B3E07FD; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:39:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.149]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0F36E07FD for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:39:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 13so504910eye.40 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:39:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=rnHHDuWfXRYOPl2PNTLu2UD+QAtuOzfC5N2z9A7f58Y=; b=rOCOT4gfdId8sn0vmyMGoQuwmbd19bf/soQ33Cb732z/uJuFnNkIhf8uT79p4pK8ab RaSjZhYr5s6MOe6DrksZXfk7dLbaE4aPSGS+sdyq9hoc65chxuJ3gOcklt432n7PagPC Rezjoc/8V9ffsUgEzGQrM1ejHE4ajZzsVzCb4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=U2p6AudPnUVHCN2O3uCRMATRCudTMIP5F7Dn2ZUXs3xWpDSS9K/fKGjMvUqNJQnxlt ptmwtOy1l9Nv69g3jp9YZUqk9hc+xHVkF+yzY04txf+IsMhg86FS0F4izRVQWWYr+UMU UorO8ozs/Vj8vVULJmFSTfD3EKiv/AfVmii/U= Received: by 10.210.4.13 with SMTP id 13mr2278779ebd.64.1253493544312; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:39:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-140-68-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.140.68]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm5632982eyh.35.2009.09.20.17.39.03 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:39:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:37:22 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <1253450052.10837.119.camel@rattus> <4AB6A3DA.1080506@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909210237.22417.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 12e22ffa-a5f2-4d05-8225-b94114d26767 X-Archives-Hash: 31aed8e70186e5d519c8953c86f35a66 On Monday 21 September 2009 02:11:51 walt wrote: > On 09/20/2009 02:51 PM, Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> The reason you don't see bash in ps is because you are not running bash. > >> I do, but you obviously don't. What shell does root use per /etc/passwd? > > > > This one: > > > > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > > > > Looks like bash. ;-) I assume this is the default because I have never > > changed this file. Is there something screwy with my system? > > In linux bash is the default shell (even sh is a symlink to bash) but in > other OS's other default shells prevail. Correction: In *Gentoo* it is the default shell. A distro is free to choose whatever default shell it feels like, as is any other OS. There are distros out there that do not default to bash. You simply cannot make a blanket statement like "In linux bash is the default shell" as it's simply not true. Let's be accurate when we make statements, OK? If devs wrote code like that it would not run, and if you typed commands with that level of slap-dashedness they would frequently fail. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com