On Jun 22, 2016, at 1:34 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com<mailto:pie...@hogranch.com>> wrote:
if root installed it to /root, no other user can see or access that. running cpan as root is fine, since that doesn’t affect the permissions of the final perl executables. The only thing it affects is keeping track of what has been installed via cpan, since the .cpan metadata lives in root’s home directory. Heck in OS X, I have to run cpan via sudo or I can’t install anything. and no way no how you should be doing Oracle database work while logged on as the unix root user. Oracle won’t even let you install it as root as of 11.2 (at least, probably much earlier but I went from 8.1.2 to 11.2 in one swell foop) . -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
