On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Dave Feustel <dfeustel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 03:49:37PM -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Dave Feustel <dfeustel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > That update started all by itself. Something in the auto-updates is screwed up then. >> >> >> Not really. The yum-updatesd is simply to let you know that there are updates >> available. That's what causes that pop up message to come up every now >> and then. System updates should not start by themselves as far as I know; unless >> you have an automated script. But then again, we're running Fedora. >> ~af > > which brings up an off-topic question I have been wondering about: > > why does linux root use Bash instead of ksh (my favorite shell for the last 20 years :-) )? > Is Bash superior to ksh? I have not changed the root shell from Bash to ksh for fear of breaking > fedora scripts that depend upon Bash features. > > Thanks. >From the regular user perspective the Bourne Shell is good enough, "user friendly". >From a power user perspective the Korn Shell is a handy programming tool. It's about syntax, performance, portability, etc... You can use if it you want. I suggest you open another thread since this is a whole other topic. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
