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Re: aliases versus functions



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On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:30:58PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
> (Conventional wisdom, at least in my world, seems to be that you want
> to do as little customization in the root account as possible.  If I
> were setting up a system like this, I'd probably just mount all of the
> relevant partitions all the time; it doesn't really cost anything.)

After having clobbered libc a few times, any box I have root on gets
it's root shell changed to /bin/sash right quick.  I strongly
recommend everybody do this.  The nice thing about sash is it's
statically linked and has builtin equivilents of some commands to help
you get running right again for when you toast things like libc.

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