Once upon a time, Emmanuel Seyman <seyman@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 05:22:43PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > In any case, why does root's $HOME need to be available? > > That's where his configuration files are. In single-user mode, what does that matter? As I said, $HOME is not set before starting the shell, so the shell files (.bash_profile, .bashrc) are not read. You really shouldn't have anything significant under root's home anyway. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
