Beginner's question about csh/tcsh

[Mike]

Jerry McAllister wrote:

>>>It sounds like you are using an account with /bin/sh as a shell
>>>For example, unless you change it, root uses sh for a shell.
>>>
>>>////jerry
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>>Root uses csh by default.
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> Well, I'll be darned.  It does now.

BTW.  I login as normal user and "su" to root for adminstrative tasks.

I checked what shell root was using and it was sh (/bin/sh).  So the 
information on my first post was inaccurate.  My bad. I thought the 
shell was csh.

So, I changed root's shell to csh.  The problem of no .history via up 
and down arrows went away.  The arrow keys now access the .history file.

Strange.  Did I possibly do something to screw up the sh shell?

Michael Chinn
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> ////jerry
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