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Date:      Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:55:28 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>
To:        mike tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: csh to sh migration for root in RELENG_14
Message-ID:  <25943.50480.709572.84563@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
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<<On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:46:53 -0500, mike tancsa <mike@sentex.net> sai=
d:

> Thanks for the clarifications.=A0 With respect to changing root's she=
ll,=20
> do I run the risk of breaking anything in, say, periodic that would r=
ely=20
> on root's shell being one thing or another =3F

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.

-GAWollman




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