Re: symbolic links within /bin
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,
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