From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA03535 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 06:27:03 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA21406; Tue, 7 May 1996 16:13:52 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 16:11:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 16:10:44 -0400 (EDT) Old-X-Envelope-To: vogelke Message-Id: <199605072010.QAA21412@a_69s.wpafb.af.mil> From: "Karl E. Vogel" To: unpingco@mpl.UCSD.EDU CC: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: need help establishing safety of zsh to sysadmin Organization: Control Data Systems Inc. X-Disclaimer: I don't speak for the USAF or Control Data. Resent-Message-ID: <"6PJNO.0.MD5.wvwZn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/207 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu >> On Mon, 6 May 1996 13:38:11 -0700 (PDT), >> unpingco@mpl.UCSD.EDU (Jose Unpingco) said: J> I've been using zsh for over a year now, but it seems that it has J> recently come to the attention of the sysadmin who wants me to stop using J> it on the grounds that "it is not a supported shell" on the machines I J> work on. Sounds like you have a lazy sysadmin. J> I'm hesistant to give up zsh and all its great functions, which I've come J> to depend upon, so I was hoping some of you could give me some specific J> examples of how zsh has not caused problems for you sysadmins out here. I've been a sysadmin at the C17 project office since 1987, and I've never had a problem with zsh on either a Pyramid or a Sparc that was due to anything except my own keyboard carelessness. As a matter of fact, zsh has kept me from deleting important stuff on more than one occasion. I tried bash and tcsh for about a year apiece and finally settled on zsh as having the best set of functions for interactive use. This was a few years ago and I have no plans on changing to a different shell. -- Karl Vogel vogelke@c17mis.wpafb.af.mil Control Data Systems, Inc. ASC/YCOA, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433 Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. --Ronald Reagan