> In message <Pine.GSO.4.04.9810060912500.22278-100000@oobleck.gatech.edu>,
> Chris
> Ricker writes:
> +-----
> | On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Matthew D. Pitts wrote:
> | > > On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> | > > And anyway, /root doesn't exist on all machines.
> |
> | > It does on Slackware and Caldera that I know of and probably on Redhat as
> | > well. I don't have any experience with SuSe or any European distributions.
> |
> | Wrong. It does as shipped. After I finish installing a RedHat system, it
> | doesn't.
> +--->8
>
> User configuration files in / are ugly. /root is far preferable.
>
> That doesn't mean the kernel should rely on it, but I don't think getting
> rid of it accomplishes anything except filling / with noise.
Who said I made root's login directory /? I agree, and that's something I
change when I set up Solaris. On the other hand, one of my home systems,
for example, doesn't have /home mounted on a separate partition, so I have
/home/root instead of /root just because I prefer that when it's feasible
(eg, /home is on the root partition).
The point is, the kernel should not be establishing the policy that Thou
Shalt Have a /root Directory.
later,
chris
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Chris Ricker kaboom@gatech.edu
chris.ricker@m.cc.utah.edu
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