[geeks] Some ancient history to get lost in...

[Phil Stracchino]

On 11/02/11 16:46, Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 12:38:08 -0400, Jonathan J. M. Katz wrote:
>> I saw this posted elsewhere...
>>
>> http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/misc/horror.txt
> 
> I have a funny feeling that I read that ... or something very similar
> close to when it first came out. Even recognise some of the .ac.uk
> email addresses.
> 
> I'm pretty sure it's those stories of the problems of replacing
> root's shell that explains why I never did that, although I always fire
> up zsh. And why I always keep a spare root window open when doing
> something ... that's saved me a number of times.

The only root shell substitution I have ever made is /bin/bash for
/bin/sh on Solaris, because bash will run everything sh will and I find
it a lot more usable.  And I can spare the little bit of extra memory.

On the other hand, on my Linux boxes, just like on Solaris, /bin/sh
*really is sh*, not a symbolic link to /bin/bash.



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