[geeks] Thoughts on bash for root

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 07:17:50PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Oh how wrong you are!  ;-)
> Do you have any idea at all why there is a /usr in the first place?

Would you like to provide a URL to something that says if you have a 
separate /usr, that Sun wont give you support?

If you've got a Platinum contract, its more like this:

<you>: "Yes, I have a Platinum contract, number <xxxyyyzzz>, and I'm having
 problems with my system.  Everything's under a single / partition, though"

<them>: "No problem sir, would you like us to spit or swallow?  I'll have 
 someone over there right away."

We've got everything from time-and-materials all the way to Platinum support
on various machines where I work, and never ONCE have they questioned our 
partitioning schemes (altho we *dont* put everything under /).  They've
asked why we dont have certain patches installed on certain machines in the
past, but once we explained our reasoning (e.g., "that patch breaks Oracle on
this combination of hardware and software", etc) they're like "Oh, okay."

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX