On Jul 30, 2010, at 12:25 PM, David Golden wrote: >> They fail as root. I think it's the old OSX issue with root's home dir. I >> created an unprivileged cpants account on my box and now it's working better. > > Ok. I'll see if there's a way to detect that and fail gracefully. > For what it's worth, you should never be smoke testing as root on any > machine you care about. > (Testing means running arbitrary code uploaded by someone you don't > know -- not a good idea to do with root privileges) I agree and thus the cpants account I setup. However my perl is installed as root and thus perl modules via cpanp have to be installed as root. I suppose I could use a different strategy to install perl. I definitely need more tuits.
Thanks for your help David
