Sun's OS flamed (ouch)

jdavidb on 2002-08-28T15:43:25

From "the Solaris Root Shell Mini-FAQ":

Other Unix distributions have not needed system partitions or dynamically linked binaries for several years now. Solaris' continued use of this legacy technology is a reflection of Sun's hardware focus and the relative priority of its OS development group.

Wow. Harsh. Is it true that you shouldn't make /usr a separate partition anymore?

Regardless, any shell I'm allowed to change is bash.

Hasn't been that way for years

Dom2 on 2002-08-28T16:30:48

Solaris has has /bin symlinked to /usr/bin for donkeys years (at least since 2,5, when I first saw it).

Consequently, everything in there is dynamically linked. The stuff under /sbin isn't though.

-Dom

Re:Hasn't been that way for years

Dom2 on 2002-08-28T16:33:41

In fact, it's very difficult to link stuff statically under solaris. Which is why they don't reccomend using any other shell than /sbin/sh for root work.

Of course, you can just do "exec zsh" or whatever as soon as you su, which is what I usually do. Just remember that you might not be able to do it in single user mode.

-Dom