Beginner's question about csh/tcsh

[Matthew Seaman]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 02:42:55PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > 
> > > It sounds like you are using an account with /bin/sh as a shell
> > > For example, unless you change it, root uses sh for a shell.
> > > 
> > > ////jerry
> > 
> > Root uses csh by default.
> 
> Well, I'll be darned.  It does now.
> 

Actually, root's shell has been set to csh(1) for as long as there has
been a FreeBSD:

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/master.passwd?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

I think I've seen one of the elder gods mention that root's shell was
csh all the way back to 4.2-BSD.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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