Re: csh to sh migration for root in RELENG_14

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 12:55 PM Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>
wrote:

> <<On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:46:53 -0500, mike tancsa <mike@sentex.net> said:
>
> > Thanks for the clarifications.  With respect to changing root's shell,
> > do I run the risk of breaking anything in, say, periodic that would rely
> > on root's shell being one thing or another ?
>
> periodic(8) is a /bin/sh script and does not depend on any particular
> user's shell.  It executes each action as a separate process, and all
> of the supplied actions are also /bin/sh scripts.
>

When we changed it to csh, we didn't change anything else. It hasn't been
hazardous in 30 years since 4.4 had all the old school issues fixed.

Warner

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