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Clarify which is the default shell available to users and root.

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Also, mention the compatibility between shells with regards to scripts.
Two other xml tag inconsistencies were fixed.

PR: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193892
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2834
Submitted by:	kpaasial icloud com
Patch by:	Anthony Perkins (plus a minor change based on the review)
Reviewed by:	allanjude
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Benedict Reuschling 2015-06-16 12:36:35 +00:00
parent 72e5c268fe
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Notes: svn2git 2020-12-08 03:00:23 +00:00 
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@ -54,12 +54,19 @@
<para>&linux; users are often surprised to find that
<application>Bash</application> is not the default shell in
&os;. In fact, <application>Bash</application> is not even in
the default installation. Instead, &os; uses &man.tcsh.1; as
the default shell. However, <application>Bash</application> and
other shells are available for installation using the &os; <link
xlink:href="&url.base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html">Packages
and Ports Collection</link>.</para>
&os;. In fact, <application>Bash</application> is not included
in the default installation. Instead, &os; uses &man.tcsh.1;
as the default root shell, and the <application>Bourne
shell</application>-compatible &man.sh.1; as the default user
shell. &man.sh.1; is very similar to <application>Bash</application>
but with a much smaller feature-set. Generally shell scripts
written for &man.sh.1; will run in <application>Bash</application>,
but the reverse is not always true.</para>
<para>However, <application>Bash</application> and other shells
are available for installation using the &os; <link
xlink:href="&url.base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html">Packages
and Ports Collection</link>.</para>
<para>After installing another shell, use &man.chsh.1; to change
a user's default shell. It is recommended that the
@ -130,7 +137,7 @@
equivalents of <filename>.deb</filename> files on
Debian/Ubuntu based systems and <filename>.rpm</filename>
files on Red&nbsp;Hat/Fedora based systems. Packages are
installed using <application>pkg</application>. For example,
installed using <command>pkg</command>. For example,
the following command installs
<application>Apache 2.4</application>:</para>
@ -247,7 +254,7 @@ apache24_flags="-DSSL"</programlisting>
rebooting the system:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>service <replaceable>sshd</replaceable> start</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>service apache24 start</userinput></screen>
&prompt.root; <userinput>service <replaceable>apache24</replaceable> start</userinput></screen>
<para>If a service has not been enabled, it can be started from
the command line using <option>onestart</option>:</para>