From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25146 invoked from network); 27 Aug 1997 09:53:37 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 27 Aug 1997 09:53:37 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA24719; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 05:42:11 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 05:41:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970827114039.33681@skiff.solsoft.com> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 11:40:39 +0200 From: Marc Baudoin To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: zsh as root login Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.83e Resent-Message-ID: <"OfKSi3.0.V16.qO_0q"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/981 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Hi, I'd like to have root use zsh on my system. In order to do it properly, it needs to be installed in /bin and to be compiled statically. But zsh installs itself in /usr/local/bin and is compiled dynamically (which is OK for normal users but not for root). So I modified the Makefile to compile a static version of zsh and install it in /bin in addition to the dynamic version in /usr/local/bin and I think it would be great if the next version of zsh would provide such a thing without people having to hack the code. Besides the directory in which to install the program, the only difference is a -static flag (for gcc) added to the link phase of the compilation. Is it wise and can you do it? Thanks. -- Marc Baudoin -=- Security On-Line software