Hi all, Either the Kernel How-To, as it is available from <http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/zriinfo/linux/howto/English/Kernel-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2> is completely outdated, maybe even dangerously wrong, or ideas I found in postings from <http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/debian-user-200008/thrd3.html#01345> are wrong.
The Kernel How-To above, as I understand it, tells me to unpack the kernel source as root in /usr/src/. Whereas in the postings from debian-user to exactly *not* do this: "another good reason to avoid extracting tarballs as root is one could send you a tarball with a file /etc/passwd (with the absolute path embedded), if you extract it as root your /etc/passwd would be replaced... " And: "And Linus has also pointed out several times that people should *not* compile kernels in /usr/src/linux, and instead do it in their home directory as a regular user, not root. The only time you should become root is when you install the kernel." So, in short, what I found by googling about for some time: The correct way seems to be to put the kernel-source in my (non-root) home directory, and then cd /usr/src/ ln -s /home/<someuser>/kernel-sources linux and then, as non-root, compile the kernel in /usr/src/linux/ (And then forget about some of the stuff I read in the Kernel-HowTo ?) The background to all this is that I tried to get the kernel sources as non-root while being in /usr/src/<some.kernel.directory> with rsync: Which, IIRC, isn't possible. A non-root doesn't have the permission to download stuff to this dir, right? So the only chance I have to get the sources in there is to run rsync as root: Which is ugly wrong if I learned my lessons well: You never even try to access the net as root. Right? Thanks in anticipation. Best Regards, Wolfgang -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]