From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 13:37:55 2003 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 673AC16A4B3 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iwmail.xpdial.com (iwgate.xpdial.com [68.156.89.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A91F43FA3 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:37:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@s-wit.net) Received: from [192.168.101.4] by iwmail.xpdial.com (ArGoSoft Mail Server Pro for WinNT/2000/XP, Version 1.8 (1.8.4.1)); Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:41:08 -0400 Message-ID: <008f01c399a6$03a9b3e0$6a1fa8c0@ocfl061> From: "M.D. DeWar" To: References: <20031023201613.19005.qmail@web10705.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:41:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: d/l,compiling question 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: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:37:55 -0000 Hello, I may have missed this. Sometimes in the docs for a application it will say at a point " you need to be root or have superuser permissions to do this " I normally login in as user then su - over to superuser. (I hope thats the right terminology). Then I do the ./configure makes etc. Is that okay to do ? or should I be just plain user till its time to make install ? Thanks Mark