"Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 07:36:50PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > > "Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Ok. I lied, galeon only works for root. If I try to run it as a > > > > you should not even be trying that, ever. > > > Advice is good, reasons are even better. Why shouldn't I run it as root? > > Read Bugtraq. > > The best policy is to only use root for system administrative tasks > that cannot be done by normal users. To use the root account, log > into a regular account and "su". Do not run X, GNOME, and KDE as > root.
Thanks Jeff, that was helpful. I thought I was running the risk of damaging my machine becuase of some programming error in galeon. I ran galeon as root to see if the issue was a permissions problem, and since it worked, it seemed for root and not for any other non-priveleged user, that seems to be the issue. As advice to Ethan and Branden: Instead of taking the 5 seconds it takes to make a pointless cryptic reply, why not take the 30 seconds to include a URL, or slightly more verbose one? Otherwise, why bother? Cheers, jas.
