HMM, You learn something new every day. I was not aware of that. Thanks for the tidbit. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 4:22 AM Subject: Re: ftp and shell access > This is a particularly bad idea. > /bin/false is actually part of the GNU shell utilities > and does nothing, silently and returns a non-zero exit code. > It is a utility called from shell scripts so making a shellscript called /bin/false > that generates output will cause various things to fail noisily > and unpredictably. >
