-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Ken Ambrose hath spake thusly: > Ben Scott Scribed: > >> Aliases are not the problem. The problem is aliasing commands *for >> someone else*. If I alias 'ls' to 'rm -rf .', then that is my own business, >> and presumably I have a reason. It is things like Unix and Linux distro >> vendors setting up "default" aliases which gets people into trouble. I >> think that is a bad idea, for all the reasons Paul brings up, and wish >> vendors would not engage in the practice.
I agree with what Ben says here. And IIRC some of the Unix vendors are a bit guilty of this too. Shortcuts are great, but only 1) when the user is aware they are using a shortcut and 2) when they know what the shortcut is a shortcut for... > Hmmm. A point all of you are making is how bad RH is for aliasing "rm -i" > because it gets you used to it. Well... they don't. Except as root. You > guys aren't running as root all the time, are you? ;-) That would be yet > another bad thing (YABT). I will point out that, as with virtually all things, It Depends(tm). For the average user, being root all the time is an extremely bad idea. But I'm a system administrator... the vast majority of what I do NEEDS to be done as root. So I am root most of the time... Of course I don't log in as root, and I maintain seperate xterms (which are different colors usually) in different desktops for being root, so that it's hard to mistake being root for being a regular user... Blanket statements are always wrong... ;-) - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8AlBAdjdlQoHP510RAs1oAJ901dIsRpoda5hhYxeVIzs8E6VFvACff8oG csHKApbcw8dKQU9MBNjiMXk= =0NZe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************