Another interesting note, is that on most *BSD systems, the root user's shell is csh. This causes some pain for those people who aren't familiar with it, but since all the boot scripts are written in csh, and run with the root user's shell, you can't reasonably change it and then reboot the system.
Any shell programmer worth his salt would explicitly specify the shell interpreter in the first line of all shell scripts (the first line should contain #!/bin/myshell). Otherwise, it depends on reading the running user's preferred shell (in most cases, from the current value of the $SHELL variable).
If these shell scripts were written properly, then it would not matter which login shell was in /etc/passwd under the entry for 'root'. And it would not matter which shell the user happened to be running when he issued commands.
Anything else is just plain sloppiness. Alan -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
