From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 15:11:39 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 9BE4F16A4B3 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:11:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EEEE43F93 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:11:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ren.sasknow.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9NMBbfE091572; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:11:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:11:37 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: "M.D. DeWar" In-Reply-To: <008f01c399a6$03a9b3e0$6a1fa8c0@ocfl061> Message-ID: <20031023161019.E55711-100000@ren.sasknow.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 22:11:39 -0000 M.D. DeWar wrote to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org: > 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 ? Your approach is fine. - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901-1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-244-7037 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America