On Thu, August 24, 2006 2:39 pm, John Delacour said: > I have never run the CPAN shell as root and I don't see what problems > you're referring to. I just do 'sudo cpan' and everything is > installed where it should go. > > Eremita:~ jd$ sudo cpan
That's running it as root, via sudo. I don't think it is actually all that big a deal, on your own machine, but do be aware you are doing it. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------
