In message <19990316133756.A24310@rek.tjls.com>, Thor Lancelot Simon writes:
>BSD Unix has shipped with /bin/csh as root's shell since at least 4.1 (I
>appear to be unable to read my 3BSD tape).  Changing it because one (or a few,
>or even many) developers grew up on System V and find csh unfamiliar is a
>crock of smelly brown goo.

Agreed.

So why does root get sh in single-user, but csh otherwise?  :)

>It's Net *BSD*.  If you want System V, you know where to find it.

Actually, I vaguely recall that the SVR4 box I had gave root csh.  :)

-s