<<On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:46:53 -0500, mike tancsa <m...@sentex.net> said:

> Thanks for the clarifications.  With respect to changing root's shell, 
> do I run the risk of breaking anything in, say, periodic that would rely 
> on root's shell being one thing or another ?

periodic(8) is a /bin/sh script and does not depend on any particular
user's shell.  It executes each action as a separate process, and all
of the supplied actions are also /bin/sh scripts.

-GAWollman


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