From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 5 4:29:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f14.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 945DA37B89B for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 04:29:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 37155 invoked by uid 0); 5 Apr 2000 11:29:09 -0000 Message-ID: <20000405112909.37154.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.220.228.2 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:29:09 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.220.228.2] From: "John Daniels" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PHP and databases Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 07:29:09 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi: One last question. Do I always have to be root when installing ports? I think that I saw someone describe installing mysql under a "mysql" user. Is this recommended? Are there other instances (i.e. other ports) where there are advantages to installing as other than root? John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message