Hi folks, Quoth Markus Teich: > Nick wrote: > > Ideally slock should always be owned by the root user, so that it can > > disable > > the oom lock. I wonder what the right solution is here, as obviously one > > can't > > chown a file to be owned by root if one isn't root oneself. > > > > One option would be to add a line like this to the install rule of the > > makefile: > > > > @chown root:root ${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}/bin/slock || echo "Could not chown > > root:root ${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}/bin/slock; please do this manually" > > > > Or else add a note to the readme that the make install rule should be run as > > root. I am not in the habit of installing software outside of $HOME, so I > > don't tend to think about elevating to root to install software, so this > > initially confused me. > > I think the echo on chown fail is a good solution. If no one has a better > idea, > I'll fix that later today.
I had forgotten about this until today, but the above fix still hasn't been applied to the Makefile, and I think it should be. Nick