From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 20 16:17:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.thought.org (sense-kline-248.oz.net [216.39.168.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8357237B408; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:17:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f6KNH0248658; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:17:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:17:00 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Greg Lehey , Dennis Jun , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is root named "Charlie"? Message-ID: <20010720161659.A48555@tao.thought.org> References: <20010720113509.I56611@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200107202106.f6KL6ob16506@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200107202106.f6KL6ob16506@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 02:06:50PM -0700 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 15 years of service to the Unix community Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 02:06:50PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: Hot damn; thanks for this neat trivia! I was an A's fan for the years I lived in Berkeley, but not enough of a b'ball enthusiast to know this. -g > > Charlie Root was a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs from about 1925 > through about 1940. Career ERA of 3.59 and a lifetime record of 201 > wins and 160 losses. > > He was a steady, very durable performer for many years. Sadly, his > greatest claim to fame was giving up the "called shot" home run to > Babe Ruth in the 1932 World Series. He was also named the Cubs all > time right-handed pitcher in 1969 (and I'm not sure that any Cub since > 69 has been better). > > I assume that whoever came up with the name on the root account had > probably heard of the name from somewhere and used it as the name of > the root user. How many famous "Root"s are there, after all. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Gary D. Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message