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Quel Qun wrote:
| This is not a joke, I don't understand why, after installing the
| kernel-source rpm, I cannot make mrproper as a standard user.

Probably because it is not a good idea for /usr/src/linux to be
world-writeable?

How about "chown $USER -R /usr/src/linux" first ?

| =-=
| kk1
|
|
| On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 22:24, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
|
|>Is it a joke? If you are talking about kernel-source, do you know how to
|>use ls -l command? If you are talking about anything else, what has it
|>to do with this list?
|>
|>
|>>This message never arrived. Why is this ML loosing posts?
|>>=-=
|>>kk1
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|>>
|>>
|>>>From: Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|>>>Subject: Need to be root to make mrproper?
|>>>Date: 27 Feb 2002 04:58:10 -0800
|>>>
|>>>
|>>>Hi,
|>>>
|>>>I don't remember having to be root to build a kernel, but make
|>>>
|>mrproper
|>
|>>>already sends me thousands of permission denied:
|>>>
|>>>rm: cannot unlink `./fs/fat/.depend': Permission denied
|>>>
|>>>I thought su perms were only needed to actually install anything?
|>>>
|>>>=-=
|>>>kk1
|>>>
|>
|
|



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