Dracut on reboot

[Kevin Martin]

On 04/09/13 08:21, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 09 April 2013, Reindl Harald sent:
>> and you even refuse to understand that the dracut shell may be
>> very special depending on why you landed there and maybe you
>> write tthe output to the temporary initramfs
>>
>> PERIOD: you should ALWAYS know where you are save files and
>> not rely on wonders and magic which may surprise you 
> 
> It's about fucking time you learnt to stop being an asshole every time
> you write a reply.  Quite frankly, I've had it with being nice to you,
> you're going to get foul language from me, from now on, any time that
> you deserve it.  I've put up with it far too much, so has everyone else,
> yet you carry on despite it being brought to your attention on several
> occasions.
> 
> It's dead easy to find out where you currently are.  The pwd command
> shows you that, if you have to ask.
> 
> There's nothing unusual about the tilde representing the logon's
> homespace, it's a very old technique.  You're also going to find out,
> quite quickly, when you're in an environment that doesn't use the tilde
> in the usual way, as you're going to get an error.
> 
> As directions over a mailing list go, it's going to be far more
> predictable to tell someone to do something like
> 
>   cp /etc/filename ~/
> 
> And have it do what you expect it to do, than try to explain to someone
> about typing "the full /home/username filepath, replacing 'username'
> with your actual username."  Hell, I've just demonstrated that with a
> sentence versus two characters.
> 
+1 Tim.  I agree with your comments and am sick of seeing people on this list (and others) that can't answer questions without
attacking the intelligence of the questioners.  So what if you've been an admin/engineer/developer for 30 years (as I'm
approaching); not everybody has learned everything you have at this point and are looking for information from those who are more
knowledgeable, not derision.

As for using ~ instead of /home/username, while unusual it's definitely possible for somebody to *not* have their homespace under
/home.  For example, on many machines I've seen root's homespace as simply /root, not /home/root (and other special usernames that
applications runas are often homed to the application path) so using the /home/username convention fails in that case anyway.

Kevin