From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HwLpu-0006vO-OS for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:31:50 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwLpt-0006uo-5B for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:31:49 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwLpr-0006tg-I4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:31:48 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwLpr-0006tZ-6f for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:31:47 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HwLpq-0005JY-S8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:31:47 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=aragorn) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HwLpp-0000Pw-SS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:31:46 +0200 Received: from rmh by aragorn with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HwLqQ-0006Nx-An for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:32:22 +0200 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:32:22 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20070607173222.GC24117@aragorn> References: <466A582E.2010408@raulete.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <466A582E.2010408@raulete.net> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Microsoft discourages use of Outlook. X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (2/2) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:31:49 -0000 On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 09:35:10AM +0200, adrian15 wrote: > 23) set read only variables > ============================== > unset prefix lets me "delete" the prefix variable. > unset root does not let me the "root" variable. > > I remember that bash has an option to set read only variables. > Maybe the root variable is a read only variable? I have manually overriden both of these some times. It's useful for debugging (i.e. not completely breaking your system when prefix wasn't set properly). -- Robert Millan My spam trap is honeypot@aybabtu.com. Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list.