From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 01:00:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359CB16A4CF for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 01:00:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F4843D55 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 01:00:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i3L80LAO042126 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:00:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i3L80L2A042125; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:00:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:00:21 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: MIchael Alexander Message-ID: <20040421080020.GA41959@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , MIchael Alexander , questions@freebsd.org References: <1082529933.6051.8.camel@ardneh.fatbird.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+QahgC5+KEYLbs62" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1082529933.6051.8.camel@ardneh.fatbird.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040420, clamav-milter version 0.70k X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file sharing accross desktops -unix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 08:00:30 -0000 --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:45:33PM -0700, MIchael Alexander wrote: > I have a file on my /root desktop I would like to share on my > /home/mike desktop (it's a file full-o-music). Which is better? Creating > a hard link ln, a soft link ln -s, or would changing group do the > job? Or should I just create a separate partition to hold the tunes? At this point I have to ask why you are listening to music when logged in as root. Or indeed why you have a root desktop at all? You should think of the root account as like a loaded weapon with no safety catch. Get too comfortable with it and it will end up blowing your foot off. Best practice is never to log in as root except in utterly dire circumstances or when doing single user mode stuff. Log in as a normal user always. If that user needs root access, make them a member of the wheel group. Use su(1) to temporarily get rootly powers -- preferably to run only those commands that really do require root level access. Even better, install sudo(1) from ports which will let you give root-level access to certain users for specific commands. Personally, I use sudo(1) pretty much exclusively to do all rootly things. Still, it's your system to treat as you will. I'd recommend that you copy or move the music files to your /home/mike directory. You say it's a 'file' -- but do you perhaps mean a folder or directory? You can use 'cp -R' to recursively copy that directory and everything in it to a new location. Once you're happy that everything was successfully copied, then just delete the originals using 'rm -rf'. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAhioUdtESqEQa7a0RAgh/AJ4qm2wSTu4lqNBg8jPECl/F5XxCdQCfT1IH fDG9JuK4v29MXY2/16hhNZ0= =c3q/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62--