Well, true, but it's root's command history. Which may not be relevant to what I'm actually doing at the moment. And in some OS's I use the root shell doesn't have command history at all.
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Dan Swartzendruber <[email protected]>wrote: > > I'm confused. I use 'sudo -i' exclusively, and whenever I get in, I have > valid command history. > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Brodbeck [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 3:49 PM > To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] User roles and acting as root > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ken Gunderson > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On a boxes where I, or one or two others I know and trust, are the only > > admin(s), I find sudo a complete pita and never use it. When I want > > root it's because I need to get something done and sudo just gets in my > > way and adds unnecessary typing w/o any benefit - if I'm going to make a > > typo or brain fart so bad as to blow up the box, sudo is not going to > > save me. Much better to actually have a # in your prompt and adhere to > > the old sysadmin adage of sitting on your hands for 5 seconds before > > hitting enter... > > > > Hm. For me it's the opposite; I now use sudo almost exclusively on my home > boxes, and rarely su to root. Part of it is I've come to rely heavily on > command history and command recall, and having to start all over with an > empty history (and, if I'm doing "su -", chdir back to the right working > directory) is a hassle. Some of the OS's I work with (FreeBSD, in > particular) have very basic statically-linked shells for root, in order to > make system recovery easier, and these often lack good tab-completion and > command history features. > > -- > David Brodbeck > System Administrator, Linguistics > University of Washington > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
