On 19 May 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > I agree with most of what you are saying; however, I think you sorta > missed the point I was trying to make (which is probably my fault > because I didn't make it very clearly <g>)
=) > My problem is not so much with changing root's default prompt on new > installations; I have changed the default on my machines anyway. My > problem is with going in and changing accepted Unix standards solely > to be more "friendly" to beginners that aren't paying attention to > what they are doing. IMHO, people that aren't paying attention before > typing a "rm -rf *" don't have any business running Unix in the first > place. > Anybody should know that before typing "rm -rf *" or an equivolent, > you THINK FIRST, every time. Of course..! I'm not saying that we should add a `Are you sure?' prompt.. =) However, we should be careful to choose _useful_ `accepted UNIX' standards. eg: the prompt "$ " is the standard. /bin/ash is much more standard than bash. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .