RE: info about redhat Question about exporting CVSROOT

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Wharton
Hello, Just curious Geoff, why is it a bad idea to build as the superuser? Is it something specific to the CVS build, or just generally a good policy? Also, I've noticed something kind of odd with gnome-terminal... If I am in one gnome-terminal and I define CVSROOT, and export it, when I open

RE: info about redhat Question about exporting CVSROOT

2003-07-17 Thread Les Bell
Thomas Wharton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I've noticed something kind of odd with gnome-terminal... If I am in one gnome-terminal and I define CVSROOT, and export it, when I open another gnome-terminal (from the first), I dont see CVSROOT (using set). However, if I open an xterm (from the

Re: info about redhat Question about exporting CVSROOT

2003-07-17 Thread Geoff Beier
Hi Thom, Just curious Geoff, why is it a bad idea to build as the superuser? Is it something specific to the CVS build, or just generally a good policy? It's nothing specific to the CVS build; it's just not a good idea to build *anything* as the superuser. (A good general rule is to perform