Re: dangerous to leave root logged in?

From: Julia Thorne (rimbaldi_at_nospam.tld)
Date: 03/30/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:23:22 GMT

On 28 Mar 2005 15:10:17 -0800, hans_schulze98@yahoo.de wrote:

> The question is not whether to run things root or not. The question
> is if you can leave them sitting logged on as root when idle.

Maybe an open root shell causes a system memory leak, and you have
to close the root shell quickly, before the memory leaks out all
over the floor.