From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 13: 2:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAD5737B405 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:02:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 70706 invoked by uid 100); 12 Mar 2002 21:02:48 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15502.27896.44480.926251@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:02:48 -0600 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports -- recursive make vs. recursive make install vs. su In-Reply-To: <20020312201923.GD790@raggedclown.net> References: <15502.21329.449926.531499@guru.mired.org> <001701c1c9fa$dd588ee0$0100a8c0@jayk1> <20020312201923.GD790@raggedclown.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson types: > The point is, that even when you are the only person who will ever use > your system, doing everything as root that you do not need to do as root > will one day, as sure as eggs is eggs, crucify you. One day you will be > logged in as root, you will be in a critical directory and you will type > "rm -rf *". Your curses will be heard unto every corner of the universe. Hmmm. You could do this: eve# rm -rf * /usr/ports/audio/dagrab zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /usr/ports/audio/dagrab [yn]? n http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message