Am 05. Oct, 2000 schwäzte Shawn T. Rutledge so:
> Another example - at work last week the admins reformatted the
> hard drive on my Ultra5 and started over, because it needed some
> repartitioning anyway. (Suns have this neat firmware
> feature that allows them to install a complete filesystem
> via the network; no mucking around with boot disks.) Afterwards
Most decent architectures do :). PCs suck.
> I could no longer ftp into the system. I scratched my head for
> a while, checked everything I could think of, and had to ask an
> admin for help (which is a little embarrassing, because I've been the
> thorn in their sides many times for being control freaks, and espoused
> the viewpoint that a software engineer should have root on his
> own box, for crying out loud.) The problem was that my shell is
Amen! ;-)
Then again, I know many software engineers that shouldn't even be given
user account... :)
> bash, and ftp only accepts connections for users whose shells are
> "blessed" as being OK, by having them listed in /etc/shells.
> (The admins all use korn shell, the masochists, so they don't have
> this problem.) (And if korn shell can do command history, filename
> completion etc. they don't know how... which makes me wonder why
set -o vi will give you vi rules for korn shell. It rocks. You can also
use emacs rules.
Command completion is kind of a pain <esc>-something, but it's there.
From an ergonomic standpoint bash is much better, but ksh is liveable.
ciao,
der.hans
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