On Fri 21 Nov 03, 9:56 AM, Richard Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > so we have a guy who presumably owns a solaris box. he wants to install > > something. i forget what it was. oracle? anyway. he wants to do it > > from an account named "joeschmo", rather than "root". > > I installed Oracle on a Solaris 9 box. To do so I created a user for > Oracle, but nothing special had to be done beyond that. At one point I > needed to su to root to run a single script as part of the installation > process, but that was it. and that's _exactly_ the right thing to do!
that's how you're supposed to install software! pete > In this case the program is Arcserve, which is backup software. I have > yet to look at the installation procedure, and it seems to need a "high > level user account". > > > Sl�inte, > Richard S. Crawford (AIM: Buffalo2K) > > http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com/catseyeview > Howard Dean for America: http://www.deanforamerica.com > "I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous > group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the > desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. > I wouldn't mess with them." > --Michael Moore > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- "Nobody steals our chicks. And lives." -- Duke Nukem (played on Linux) GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
