[geeks] Thoughts on bash for root

[Scott Howard]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 05:07:21PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Monday, April 22, 2002 at 16:49:46 (-0400), Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [geeks] Thoughts on bash for root
> >
> > Looks like it, there's no rant about it in the fixsolaris document for
> > 2.6.  Oh, another wrinkle, fsck isn't even IN /sbin.  It's in /usr/sbin.
> > So, if you have a separate /usr, you can't even fsck your filesystems
> > if you are having a problem with /usr.  Dumbness.
> 
> If you have a separate /usr you've not installed Solaris as per Sun's
> recommendations and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they refused to
> support you.

Complete and utter rubbish.

The recommendation not to have a separate /usr parition is new, and either
way is fully supported.

> The really funny one though is /sbin/init (at least as of 5.6).  You
> can't even begin to do anything unless shared libraries are in working
> condition, not even fork a single-user shell.  One of the many reasons I
> stay as far away from admin'ing solaris as humanly possible.

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.

  Scott.