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On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Peter da Silva wrote: > Heh, we had our HP-SUX (rant held in reserve) changed to "-s". > > But... I know why ours got changed, because it was in an rc script, but > why would any part of slashcode be running as root? Truthfully I can't remember right now, but it was probably something related to installing perl libraries or something. It was one of those "well I can spend 5 hours hacking it to run as a normal user or just bloody run it as root" situations. Always yucky, but never befored changed my hostname to '-f'. > (running things as root when they shouldn't be: another rant for another day) I'm working at a software company now; don't even get me started... (Fortunately I'm more design than implementation, but oh, my eyes.) -- "When I die, I want go out just like my grandfather, in his sleep, peaceful and quiet...not kicking and screaming like the other guys in his car" --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://abstractive.org | http://www.bladelogic.com
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