Is it a bug or a feature that tcsh is no longer installed by default anymore? Maybe it was never explicitly listed but something pulled it in on a default install? Most people around here use it as their shell.
Thanks,
tjb
Thomas J. Baker (tjb@unh.edu) said:
Is it a bug or a feature that tcsh is no longer installed by default anymore? Maybe it was never explicitly listed but something pulled it in on a default install? Most people around here use it as their shell.
It was done in August for rawhide/f8, mainly because nothing required it, and it is easy to add for new installs later.
Bill
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:42 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Thomas J. Baker (tjb@unh.edu) said:
Is it a bug or a feature that tcsh is no longer installed by default anymore? Maybe it was never explicitly listed but something pulled it in on a default install? Most people around here use it as their shell.
It was done in August for rawhide/f8, mainly because nothing required it, and it is easy to add for new installs later.
Bill
In my nightmare use case scenario, install F8, enable NIS authentication at first boot, get the gdm prompt, no users are listed as their shell is tcsh, root login is now disabled, a graphically oriented user is locked out of their system.
I know how to work around this, it likely won't happen for upgrades, but it does cause some problems.
Thanks,
tjb
Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com wrote:
Thomas J. Baker (tjb@unh.edu) said:
Is it a bug or a feature that tcsh is no longer installed by default anymore? Maybe it was never explicitly listed but something pulled it in on a default install? Most people around here use it as their shell.
It was done in August for rawhide/f8, mainly because nothing required it, and it is easy to add for new installs later.
I seem to remember it was required for Perl's globbing operator.
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:26:23 -0400 Horst H. von Brand wrote:
It was done in August for rawhide/f8, mainly because nothing required it, and it is easy to add for new installs later.
I seem to remember it was required for Perl's globbing operator.
AFAIK, that dependency disappeared over 7 years ago, with the introduction of Perl 5.6.0 (March 2000).
-- Steven
On 20 Sep 2007, at 16:08, Steven Bakker wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:26:23 -0400 Horst H. von Brand wrote:
It was done in August for rawhide/f8, mainly because nothing required it, and it is easy to add for new installs later.
I seem to remember it was required for Perl's globbing operator.
AFAIK, that dependency disappeared over 7 years ago, with the introduction of Perl 5.6.0 (March 2000).
Thats what I thought... however a quick strings on libperl.so does throw up an instance of /bin/csh - no idea what its there for...
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