Why is this not a good idea? The only reason I can think of it that you
want your root shell on the root hard drive. As many system use a
separate partition for /usr and that bash installs to /usr/local/bin per
default I can see how that can cause troubles. But are there any other
reasons?
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:11:56AM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
This explains one of the reasons not to change root's shell:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/security.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT
Yes that's exactly what I meant. Is there any other reason except for
that? As I see it that problem can
If a modern hard drive begins to let bad blocks through it's internal
block relocation mechanics have failed. I recommend to take backup on
everthing on that disk because this is usually a sign that the disk
will die shortly.
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:17:44PM +0100, Marco wrote:
hej list,
After reading freebsd.org/gnome FAQs and hal FAQs my impression is that
dbus and hal must be run on the clients box, not on the server.
Can somebody confirm this?
AFAIK that is correct.
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On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Omer Faruk Sen wrote:
Can I use zfs on / using FreeBSD 7.1?
Yes. But you need a /boot partition so the bootloader can find the
kernel. See http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot and
http://www.ish.com.au/solutions/articles/freebsdzfs
