Matthew -- ...and then Matthew D. Fuller said... % % On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 08:17:05AM -0500 I heard the voice of % David T-G, and lo! it spake thus: % > % > % it (requiring root at THAT point) when it has args. Solaris assumes that % > % you're always trying to set it, even to nothing. % > % > Really? I've never heard of that. ... % % Or I could be completely talking out of my hat ;p
Perhaps. Not like any of the rest of us haven't done it before, and even more on-topic :-) % % Most of my Slowaris experience was 2.5.1 (SunOS 5.5.1), before they Ahhh... % decided "Hey, 2.6 + 1 = 7!", and I definately recall something that I Yeah; that was a very funny time. Too bad NT5 was renamed to Win2000 and announced just ONE DAY before the fantastic announcement of Solaris 7, the Operating System Rushed Out The Door In Time To Have A Higher Revision Number Than That Crap From Microsoft (but not in time to be complete, which is why 8 came out so soon after without even an attempt at 7.1). There were a *lot* of people at Sun who were pissed off! % considered a pretty basic "give me this bit of info" command that Solaris % decided to interpret as "set this info" and yelled at me for not being I won't argue that this isn't possible; certainly Solaris has done some funny things. It might have been chown, which really *should* only be run by root but which some other vendors allow at the user level and thus piss off folks moving to Solaris... % root. I THOUGHT that was hostname(1), but I can't say for sure (and I % don't have anything Solaris around to check. It works as expected on % SunOS 4.1.4. Of course; those were the Good Old Days :-) % % -- % Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] % Unix Systems Administrator | [EMAIL PROTECTED] % Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ % % "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I % haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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