From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 19 19: 5:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB5D37B405 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:05:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 221356ACBC; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:35:09 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:35:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Dennis Jun Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is root named "Charlie"? Message-ID: <20010720113509.I56611@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010719185107.14311.qmail@web11605.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010719185107.14311.qmail@web11605.mail.yahoo.com>; from dennisjun@yahoo.com on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:51:07AM -0700 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 19 July 2001 at 11:51:07 -0700, Dennis Jun wrote: > Just outta curiosity, anyone know why root is > named "Charlie"? I hope it's not in reference > to the BSD Daemon which some people incorrectly > refer to as "Chuckie." ;) The most plausible thing I've heard is that it's a reference to a baseball player called Charlie Root. I don't know if he really existed, but if he did, it would seem to fit. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message