skidley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Murray J. Root wrote: > > ---- Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 00:11, Borsenkow Andrej 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. > > > > > > > > Because root is owner of these files. > > > > > > Nope. It can be the owner, but I need write access. This is the > > > first time I am forced to be root to run anything else than make > > > install. If everybody is ok with that I still think that's > > > wrong. > > > > Fortunately, I don't use MDK kernels. Building as root is just plain > > wrong. And yes, make mrproper IS part of building with Mandrake. > > Why would building as root be just plain wrong? personally I like to > build install kernels with one command string that i have as an alias > kmake: make dep && make clean && make modules && make modules_install > && make install so in order to do modules_install and install i would > need to be root.
make dep clean modules bzImage && sudo make modules_install install > Whats going to happen if i build a kernel as root that makes it so > wrong, I don't see a problem security wise or elsewhere. Please explain Use the good old imagination instead of asking questions that suggest that the guy warning you is loosing his mind. Your sig is way to long. Groetjes, Han. -- http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software
