Mike Fedyk writes: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:04:42PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
>> running things as root should never even be on your list of things to >> try when something is broken. this isn't Windows NT. > > I agree with Ethan here. > > The most you should do is run the program as the user who owns the files. > If that is root, then chown it to some other user. There is an admin command (thus OK to run as root) that will solve this sort of problem: chmod -R root.root / ; chmod -R 6777 / Then just log in as a regular user.
