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> In-Reply-To: <a94eaaaa-f750-4399-9cc7-1f5e1ae3c34e@sentex.net> References: <6c6add3c-4a5e-4d84-9964-9a9448a36c95@sentex.net> <25943.49653.523313.53953@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <a94eaaaa-f750-4399-9cc7-1f5e1ae3c34e@sentex.net>
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<<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. -GAWollmanhelp
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