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Comment on Be Careful With SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash by ArenWeeld

ArenWeeld — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:57:43 +0000

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Comment on Be Careful With SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash by pac

pac — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:56:48 +0000

I just chsh take it that this might affect me…..
Shell: /usr/local/bin/bash

Comment on Be Careful With SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash by Elias Chrysocheris

Elias Chrysocheris — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:32:25 +0000

Basically, that is why you NEVER change the csh shell of the root account and do all your updates WITHOUT sudo (Ubuntu haters) when you do such trivial tasks as updates! An su will also save you some time because:
1. it is 2 characters smaller :-P
2. You don’t have to type it again and again when performing portsnap updates and portupgrades e.t.c.

Comment on Be Careful With SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash by Ben Grimm

Ben Grimm — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:47:51 +0000

I have upgraded gettext several times (even recurisvely, when /usr/ports/UPDATING mandated it) and I can’t say that I have ever come across this problem. The difference may be that I have bash as a shell in /etc/passwd (on the toor account, not the root account, of course), so it’s not launched from .cshrc, but invoked directly on logon. Could it be that the way you invoke bash exposes it to this specific problem?

Comment on Be Careful With SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash by keramida

keramida — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:23:50 +0000

@adamo: That's I don't actually change the shell of root in /etc/master.passwd but I exec the bash/ksh version. I was just amused by the interaction of exec bash and gettext upgrades. Now that I have understood what's going on, I'm going to be careful when rebuilding ports from source. @stathis: One of the things I want to experiment with is zfs snapshots before major upgrades. That's why my laptop now runs with a ZFS root filesystem and the root fs is a zfs dataset of its own:

keramida@kobe:~$ df -ht zfs
Filesystem            Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
kobe                   98G    1.2G     97G     1%    /
kobe/local            101G    3.9G     97G     4%    /usr/local
kobe/ports             97G    622M     97G     1%    /usr/ports
kobe/distfiles         99G    2.5G     97G     2%    /usr/ports/distfiles
kobe/packages          98G    1.7G     97G     2%    /usr/ports/packages
kobe/home/keramida    108G     11G     97G    11%    /home/keramida
...
keramida@kobe:~$

Comment on Be Careful With SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash by Stathis

Stathis — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:12:34 +0000

On a more general note, I like the way Solaris handles system updates. Creating a clone of the root filesystem and updating the clone, with the ability to rollback to your last good working snapshot. This solves or rather it avoids a whole class of problems.

I hope BSDs and Linux will eventually provide something similar (no, chroots aren’t good enough :P). FreeBSD has zfs so it should be doable in principle.

Cheers

Comment on Be Careful With SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash by adamo

adamo — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:42:16 +0000

I am now reminded of our discussion with @mperedim on how it is inadvisable to not change the root shell.

Comment on Using the Condensed DejaVu Font-Family Variant by Default by keramida

keramida — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:48:49 +0000

I know the feeling. I still use my own hacked version of lucida-sans-typewriter-12 for terminals. TrueType fonts look less pleasing to my eyes for code and terminal windows.

I’m glad you liked the condensed variants, Philip :-)

Comment on Using the Condensed DejaVu Font-Family Variant by Default by Philip Paeps

Philip Paeps — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:51:59 +0000

I’ve been using these fonts for a couple of days now and I have to say: much friendlier on the eyes than the “default” DejaVu fonts. I’m still absolutely not convinced about “truetype” fonts for code (I still use terminus for all my fixed-width needs), but this tip made “the web” slightly less unpleasant for me again.

Thanks. :-)

Comment on Using the Condensed DejaVu Font-Family Variant by Default by keramida

keramida — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:49:37 +0000

Thanks Philip. I think I fixed it, by copying the “hinting” section from my current ~/.fonts.conf. WordPress comment-syntax keeps amazing me too; not always in a nice way.