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On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 11:43:36AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: > And why are you messing around in a root shell? Don't have sudo? Logging in as root is generally a bad idea, but there are perfectly valid reasons to run in a root shell. Many times, if you are administering your system, you will need to run many commands as root in sequence. typing "sudo" before each of them gets very tedious in short order. Personally, I've set up a command called "root" which (basically) uses sudo to run xterm with a different window name. This allows that xterm to automatically have a different configuration, i.e. different background color, making it difficult to type in the wrong window mistakenly (unless you're color-blind). When I need to do a lot of sysadmin stuff on my system, I just run root, type my password, and I've got a convenient root shell to work in. I usually also place it on a different desktop to make it even harder to mistakenly type into. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- Despite the ever-increasing complexities of human society and the advancement of science and technology, the most perplexing problems that face most people remain what to eat for lunch today, and who to sleep with tonight. -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20040419/d66d46e3/attachment.sig>
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