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From: night@pawl.rpi.edu (Trip Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: File Sys Hierarchies
Message-ID: <5748@rpi.edu>
Date: 29 Jun 89 01:15:19 GMT
References: <20140@adm.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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In article <20140@adm.BRL.MIL> rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>Another annoying thing is that the superuser's home directory is `/'.
>This make it difficult to have a private bin directory and use the
>same .cshrc and .login scripts as my user account.

Is there any good reason to leave root's home directory as "/"?  Or
is this just another convention that's been around so long that no one's
bothered to change it?

Trip Martin  KA2LIV       night@pawl.rpi.edu
Finite state machinist    night@uruguay.acm.rpi.edu