Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:11:37 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: "M.D. DeWar" <mark@s-wit.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: d/l,compiling question Message-ID: <20031023161019.E55711-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <008f01c399a6$03a9b3e0$6a1fa8c0@ocfl061>
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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 <ryan@sasknow.com> 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
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