On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: > Noone in their right mind changes root's shell. Creating an > alternative root account with a different login name and tcsh as a > shell would be the right thing to do.
Forgive my ignorance, but I thought that both bash and tcsh would be available at all times. If that was the case, it would not matter if root shell was changed. Why don't I want to change root's shell? Are there security reasons? (This discussion might be valuable on debian-user.) Or is it just that currently no other shell lives in /bin? I guess I need to read my 'System Administrator's' book a little more. > Who put the rmail, rnews and smail links in /bin ? They're not part > of the Smail package. > > Could you try > dpkg --search /bin/rmail Did that, and there was nothing found. I assume that this means these were put there by me installing some other program. Maybe the manual installation of UUCP (non-debian) did this. I don't know. I will try removing them. I now have the debianize UUCP. rnews may have come from an INN installation. Thanks for setting me straight, ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenny Wickstrom | gnu - a new generation in s/w devel/support [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux - a much improved Un*x clone (708)740-4008 | Debian - a Linux distribution setting the #include <std-disclaimer> | standard for future distributions
