From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 5 10:55:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gradwell.com (mail.gradwell.com [194.205.225.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B1B037BE0F for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:55:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) Received: (qmail 2217 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2000 17:54:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO merlin.onsea.com) (212.188.141.14) by mail.gradwell.com with SMTP; 5 Apr 2000 17:54:58 -0000 Received: from localhost (dozprompt@localhost) by merlin.onsea.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01899; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:55:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) X-Authentication-Warning: merlin.onsea.com: dozprompt owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:55:09 +0100 (BST) From: Cliff Rowley To: John Daniels Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PHP and databases In-Reply-To: <20000405112909.37154.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Do I always have to be root when installing ports? I think that I saw > someone describe installing mysql under a "mysql" user. Is this > recommended? Are there other instances (i.e. other ports) where there are > advantages to installing as other than root? In a word, yes. Regarding the mysql user, what it most likely means is that you run the mysql daemon under a 'mysql' user account - not actually installing it while being that user. You wouldnt be able to install anything unless your uid/gid was 0 anyhow... Cliff Rowley - while (!asleep) { code(); } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message