Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:00:47 +0400 From: Igor Roboul <igor@raduga.sochi.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root Shells Message-ID: <20000914090047.C22658@linux.rainbow> In-Reply-To: <000a01c01e02$08ee80b0$11c1ce3f@lola>; from robert.shea@onlinecables.com on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:12:44PM -0700 References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000913210624.27026D-100000@utah> <000a01c01e02$08ee80b0$11c1ce3f@lola>
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:12:44PM -0700, Robert Shea wrote: > > Over the last few months I have become quite used to zsh, and have set the > root account on one of my boxes to use it. However when a friend of mine saw > this he seemed to think it a very bad thing, noting that zsh is not in the > root partition etc. My question is, is this really a problem? can't I just > run sh if the need arises? This is bad. This is bad just because you work as root always. If you don't do this, then why do you need zsh for root. Also, it is good idea to use static linked shell for root. Also, if some error will be found in sh/csh it will be fixed "automagically" after next cvsup (or next next cvsup). But for zsh you need reinstall it from ports. -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", Sochi, Russia http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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