In message <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000123081035.2575A-100000@marcy.nas.nasa.gov>, Bill 
Studenmund writes:
>Although isn't the new shell (if it's csh based) supposed to run .cshrc?
>That explicitly sets the path in the distribution, so wouldn't that be
>resetting the path? Note that the path it sets things to includes the sbin
>directories.

Right.  My guess is I'm the only person to notice because I'm probably the
only person to set root's shell to /bin/ksh instead of /bin/csh.

-s