Darren J Moffat wrote: > Dirk Wetter wrote: > > don't know whether this has been asked before, but is > > there a reason not to move $HOME of root to "/root" ? > > There are at least two reasons to not have "/" . > > We plan on actually moving it to /root. The ARC case was approved > several years ago. > > The only reason it never got done was because doing so broke some > internal to Sun test suites (long before opensolaris) that made > assumptions about the location of root's home directory. I didn't have > the time to go and fix those test suites at the time.
What about adding an option to the installer which offers two choices 1) Make "/root" "root"'s home dir 2) Make "/" "root"'s home dir IMo it should make both sides happy (default is [1] and machines used to run the test suites pick [2])... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
