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From: emanuele@overlf.UUCP (Mark A. Emanuele)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Using /bin/csh for root login on SCO Unix causes improper boot--why?
Keywords: Unix SCO Boot csh
Message-ID: <1814@overlf.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 90 04:21:19 GMT
References: <44@bmhalh.UUCP>
Organization: Overleaf, Inc.
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In article <44@bmhalh.UUCP>, bruce@bmhalh.UUCP (Bruce M. Himebaugh) writes:
> Everything works fine, until you
> reboot the system. 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

take a look at /etc/init.d/* and /etc/rc*

these need the Bourne shell to operate properly. I think the problem is that
SCO in their "WISDOM" looks at /etc/passwd for the root shell and executes
that as the shell for startup. (When I added a "tset -r" in the /etc/profile 
every time I reboot, I get a TERM=(ansi) prompt at the bottom of the screen.)

I would think that *nix would be smart enough to just default to /bin/sh
to execute these scripts.
Leave it up to SCO to screw it all up.

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Mark A. Emanuele
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