Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:13:38 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Beginner's question about csh/tcsh Message-ID: <20040415191338.GA54227@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200404151842.i3FIgtg19340@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <20040415183627.GB53689@ns1.tcbug.org> <200404151842.i3FIgtg19340@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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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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