"Michael G. Schabert" <mikeride@prez.org> writes:
> At 11:46 AM +0000 3/27/03, airhead@vhe-382807.sshn.net wrote:
> >./build.sh -U -D /usr/dist -E distribution
> >./build.sh -D /usr/dist -U install=/
> 
> Hi Peter,
> You *MUST* be root when you do that second line. The unprived mode
> lets you not be root during BUILDING, but to do the actual install
> requires root since regular users cannot make a binary be SUID root
> (as you noticed).

One also wonders at the use of -E.

Using -E is dangerous and unneeded here. It is the equivalent of
aiming a loaded gun at your foot.


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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com