If I restart xymon while using tcsh, for example, suddenly my ntp test breaks, because:

red Thu Oct 16 22:39:47 2014 ntp NOT ok

Service ntp on <elided> is not OK : Service unavailable

Command: ntpdate -u -q -p 2 <elided> 2>&1

1: Permission denied.

/var/log/xymon/1, of course, is confused about the value of 2, because it can write there sometimes, which is also interesting. For the moment, I've hard coded 'export SHELL=/bin/sh' in the startup script for xymon, but the assumption shouldn't be made that $SHELL is a /bin/sh derivative.

-Tracy