[NTLUG:Discuss] What settings do I want?

[Steve Baker]

Douglas King wrote:

You asked what these are for...

> /bin/sh
      -- this is probably a link to bash
> /bin/csh
      -- this is probably a link to tcsh or ksh or something.
> /bin/false
      -- a program that does nothing - but returns an exit status
         of 'false'
> /bin/bash
      -- this is the Bourne Again Shell
> /sbin/nologin
      -- used to display a message for accounts that have been disabled
> /bin/sync
      -- resyncs data to your harddrive before you shut down your machine.
> /sbin/shutdown
      -- shuts down the machine cleanly.
> /sbin/halt
      -- shuts down the machine rather more brutally
> /dev/null
      -- a 'fake' device that discards everything you send to it.
> /bin/nologin
      -- see /sbin/nologin
> /bin/bash2
      -- Dunno what this is?  A alternative version of BASH?
> /bin/ash
      -- Yet another shell like bash and tcsh.
> /bin/bsh
      -- Dunno what this is?  Probably yet another kind of shell.
> /bin/tcsh
      -- Still another kind of shell program.

You probably need all of the above programs.  Maybe you could remove
ash, bsh and bash2 - but all of the others are DEFINITELY needed for
your machine to do anything useful.
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