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On Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 10:56  AM, Julio Merino wrote:

> BTW, can anybody explain me why all BSD's come with csh as the default 
> shell?
>
> Thanks!

I could be wrong, but I believe that csh has been the default root
shell from the beginning of BSD. This is likely due to the fact that
the first BSD UNIX operating system was co-authored by Bill Joy, who
is also the author of csh.

There are many more folks more knowledgeable then I regarding the
history of BSD, and I'm sure I will be corrected if I am in error.

Regards,

Dan M.

P.S. Personally I dislike csh as well, but I find that I rarely have
to actually login or su to the superuser account thanks to tools like
sudo. Of course, when a system is being recovered after a crash such
a luxury may not be available -- and yet this occurs rarely enough
that I've never felt the need to change the default
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