On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:43:33PM -0500, Jeremy West wrote: > Okay, I have run the cvs utility. > > "cvs -t -z9 -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs> checkout xc" > > now I go in the xc directory, and run make World. This works for a few > minutes, and then will lock up my computer. I'm in runlevel 1. Why is > it doing this?? > > What am I doing wrong.
why are you doing this in runlevel 1? (single-user mode). you don't need to be root to do this; indeed you *shouldn't* be root to do this. do the 'make World' part as an ordinary user, in that user's home directory; and then su when you need to do the 'make install'. Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700 _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
