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 1MpX1w-00052H-Ot for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:45:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A5DAE0693; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:45:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com (mail-yx0-f174.google.com [209.85.210.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18DA8E0693 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:45:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe4 with SMTP id 4so2889981yxe.32 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:45:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CBbBXF8jYskimsfKn4OpphN6QuVBAW2AyiHpz2n2O7Y=; b=oL93OjOCp8uq1aLI6yoWSLuwj9h9F23tM1FreFkBL8DZjPozY3cSmQTUzeu/SNgkCR bN0uHEERTEJdy1Z2l2+ePerKqFcDjL8YwYXLP0EH5qBOCuG3fmlwWK2lmqvYTxLVK9xr BjJhVNztV0uaKbCOTHeShYmkHmOlx0mkwkONg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NG9GJrTpWh1hL7yihMmf0zFN1An3rMcFhdFbnE1JwlWJ/2RBtzzBWMYMXEUQjXN0UD bnp3rvqf7nhCRf77Gyf7fJe1LpDK/PSaFXFd9GGBPOBk4kD8g6/jtUtOQ18SieVrvoOP adqDuM3ySujoa9AvroiCRCXE7FWm31Uh0bRdY= Received: by 10.100.78.16 with SMTP id a16mr3653775anb.180.1253493922816; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-144-216-98.jan.bellsouth.net [70.144.216.98]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 20sm1830769yxe.6.2009.09.20.17.45.21 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AB6CCA0.1000000@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:45:20 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090905 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list References: <1253450052.10837.119.camel@rattus> <4AB6A3DA.1080506@gmail.com> <200909210237.22417.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200909210237.22417.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bb42cf07-de9d-40c9-83c5-473419efff83 X-Archives-Hash: e49a9dcc78494081b257c63c18d89e0a Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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. > > > So that is my problem. "slap-dashedness" ;-) LOL I always wondered why I could screw something up. Dale :-) :-) P. S. Read a LOT of humor in that.