HI On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 12:29:37PM +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On 06/ 6/10 12:11 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Hi >> >> When I untar sage as root not all files are owned >> as root. (This is after running make as root, but still) > > It's unwise to use the root account for anything where it is not needed. > The chance of you accidentally screwing up your system is much higher if > you use the root account unnecessarily.
Yes, I am aware of that, thanks, and was not promoting it. It is also best practice to install system-wide packages, as on any modern linux distro, with the files owned by root. > It's much better to use su, sudo of pfexec to get root privileges when > you actually need it, rather than use the privileged account > unnecessarily. Yes, thanks, I know. My query is about the file ownerships and still stands please. regards, Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
