On Mon 09 Sep 02 00:24, Gene Heskett wrote: > Humm, "fakeroot"? Odd indeed. Not saying its wrong, but... Whats > this fakeroot do?
I haven't gone into details, but I think it mainly fakes file permissions. The main use is that you don't have to have _real_ root to do stuff which doesn't really necessitate it. Debian has such a thing as auto-builds, and for various reasons it makes sense not to have to have root to construct package files. > For *most* systems, amanda should be built by the user thats going > to run it from that users crontab. But amanda does its own su- > when the time comes, and in order for all the perms to be set > right, root must install, same as your's. The package scripts sort out the file permissions before package construction (make install isn't used directly). ..Brian -- Init Systems - Linux consulting 031 767-0139 082 769-2320 [EMAIL PROTECTED]