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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 16:19:52 -0600
To: lewiz <purple@lewiz.info>, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Subject: Re: ``root''?
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At 10:08 PM 11.4.2002 +0000, lewiz wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:03:26PM -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:00, lewiz wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> >   I've been wondering - what does ``root'' stand for?  I've just been
>> > doing some calculus as part of my math. homework and I've just written
>> > down ``there are no ``real'' roots'' - is this possibly something to do
>> > with the meaning of ``root'' - i.e. root = answer?
>> Root of the user tree.  Root of all users.  Root of the machine. 
>> 
>> Tradition. 
>
>Maybe I was reading into it just a bit too deep then... ;)
>
>> 

I always related it to "running as root" which has "root" access to the
"root" of the system, or the "root of the tree".... etc.... root = "GOD" of
the system.

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Jack L. Stone,
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