Re: alias?

[hnine@nine.agn.net (Harmon Sequoya Nine)]

Hi Bjoern.  To get an alias to be "permanent", it depends on what shell you're using.
For the korn-shell, place the alias in your .kshrc file under your home directory.
For bash, put it in .bash_profile and .bashrc -- all of these files are executed by
a shell whenever you have either a) just logged on and therefore have a "login shell"
(.bash_profile and .kshrc fall into this category) or b) spawned a subshell  
(.bashrc and .kshrc fall into this category).  There's more info in the man pages.

Anyway, the alias you mentioned:

alias down="shutdown -h now"

shouldn't be a security risk, since it will only work when you are "root".  However
to perform such an operation as a user, I suggest checking out the "sudo"
package.

Regards,
-- Harmon