[TUHS] earliest Unix roff

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Wed Sep 18 08:39:46 AEST 2019


On Mon, 16 Sep 2019, Larry McVoy wrote:

> In retrospect having / be roots home is a super bad idea but I think it 
> was fairly common practice, /root became a thing as idiots like me 
> messed things up :)

After my similar fsckup, I made /etc root's home directory (it was much 
easier to recover, and was available at boot time).

-- Dave


More information about the TUHS mailing list