[geeks] Thoughts on bash for root

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Mon Apr 22 18:27:29 CDT 2002


[ On Tuesday, April 23, 2002 at 08:48:19 (+1000), Scott Howard wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Thoughts on bash for root
>
> The recommendation not to have a separate /usr parition is new, and either
> way is fully supported.

It's been pretty much the general idea ever since SunOS-4 first came
out, though Sun's been smart enough to push slowly and not to start a
flame war over it....

> In many years of admin'ing several hundred machines, I've never had a
> single problem booting a machine due to shared library problems. In the
> event that I did, "boot cdrom" or "boot net" would have had me ready to
> fix the problems and try again.

What about what was said before????  Oh, never mind.... 

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