"Oscar" == Oscar Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 02:38:16AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: >> It is bad advice for someone asking help about fakeroot to tell >> them to also use sudo or super. Pick one and one only.
> I read that he needed to have root priviledges as I have when > creating packages. I didn't see him asking for help with fakeroot. I read that he had a problem with /usr/sbin not being on his path. ;) > When I tried it, I saw it changing the permissions and ownership of > my sample file. On trying it again, it doesn't. I'd guess I was in > a root shell, but I remember trying to run the commands with and > without fakeroot and seeing an error when I didn't. Oh well. > Fakeroot looks like a fine tool for avoiding permission denied > errors. Yes; well eveyone needs some level of 'root'ness when creating .debs, since files in debs, by policy, should be owned by root. fakeroot lets you pretend a file is owned by root without bothering to su and all that. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
