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Received: from shell1.best.com (shell1.best.com [204.156.128.10]) by blob.best.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id NAA12740; Tue, 30 May 1995 13:37:27 -0700 Received: (cpage@localhost) by shell1.best.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id NAA14825; Tue, 30 May 1995 13:37:42 -0700 Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 13:37:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Chad Page <cpage@best.com> To: Tim Cutts <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: executor/1.99m/linux questions In-Reply-To: <9505300706.AA24196@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> Message-ID: <Pine.BSD.3.91.950530133622.11827B-100000@shell1.best.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 May 1995, Tim Cutts wrote: > Of course, running as root all the time is not very advisable. I > almost never log onto my PC as root, ever since I did: > > rm -rf .* > > on root's home directory (/root). Bye bye system...!!! That was > about two years ago before I'd learned much about Unix! It would be > much more advisable to set the directory world writeable, or give each > user their own system folder. I'm just too lazy to really give myself a cool account. I'm was used to DOS/Windoze, which gave me complete power anyway. When I get my FreeBSD setup going on the other hard drive, I'll probably be more careful with that one. Thanks for the advice! - Chad