>The standard shell for root is the csh, which doesn't read .profile, but 
>.cshrc instead. It is probably a good idea to put echos in all those 
>dotfiles to see which of them get read and when.

By all means do this for debugging, but remember to take them out
afterwards, or surround them with a construct along the lines of:

if ($?prompt) then
	echo Hello
endif

If you don't do this, things like rcp and rdump will start failing.

Cheers,
Rob