[SunHELP] problem setting PATH under solaris 8

[Ledger, David]

Perhaps I should have quoted and elaborated more.

This was is response to the question about why changing PATH in /.profile
was
not affecting root's PATH.
If root's HOME were /root, its /root/.profile that need editing.

Jan Johansson gave one of the reasons why you should not have root's home
at '/', (quoted below).  /root is a common convention for root's home.

David

v v v v v v v v
 On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:36:08PM +0100, Ledger, David wrote:
 >
 >Is root's HOME '/' or '/root' (safer).

Jan Johansson wrote:
 Consider

 # pwd
 /somewhwere/in/yer/filsystem
 # cd somedir
 # ls
 junk1 junk2
 # cd --       <-- Ooops that should be ..
 # rm -rf *    <-- You are now removing /* or /root/*


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