I will take your's and Nick's advice, and change root shell back to ksh.

Thanks,

Jay

> I have seen the following sort of remarks a couple of
> times this past week, yet I haven't seen them corrected.
> Nick Holland is such an excellent writer that, as often
> as not, you don't need to look at the sample code to
> follow his advice.  That's not relevant in this case,
> except insofar as I cannot understand why more people
> don't spend more time with the FAQ (especially those who
> offer advice).
>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:16:18PM -0500, bofh wrote:
>>
>> In UNIX, it is always recommended not to change root's shell.  This is
>> because ...
>>
>> In free UNIX systems, it is also recommended for similar reasons ...
>
> "... though there is no good reason not to in OpenBSD."
>
> Let's save the rest of
>
>      http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#rootshell
>
> for the curious reader.
>
>
> (That said, I second recommendations to just use ksh.)

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