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.)