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Date:      Thu, 05 May 2005 00:38:15 +0200
From:      Jonathan Weiss <tomonage2@gmx.de>
To:        Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: boot banner project
Message-ID:  <BE9F1B77.22554%tomonage2@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050504215549.GA16089@uk.tiscali.com>

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> On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:24:39PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>>> Agreed.  I consider it a serious misfortune that FreeBSD doesn't use
>>> /bin/sh as root's shell.  On the other hand, it's easy enough to fix,
>>> so I haven't spent my time complaining about this.  :-)
>> 
>> All BSDs have, since a very long time ago, used /bin/csh as root's
>> shell.
> 
> OpenBSD appears to use ksh, which is a POSIX shell:
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/etc/master.passwd?rev=1.47&content-t
> ype=text/x-cvsweb-markup


They switches only a month or two ago from csh.

Greets,
jonathan




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