From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 16 18:22:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from transbay.net (dns1.transbay.net [209.133.53.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3F037B479 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:22:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from transbay.net (rigel.transbay.net [209.133.53.177]) by transbay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA71283; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39EBAD37.D99ABB06@transbay.net> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:36:55 -0700 From: UCTC Sysadmin Organization: UC Telecommunications Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philip Hallstrom Cc: Charlie Schloemer , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: root is filling up! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > I missed the first part of this thread, but *WHY* are you running netscape > and gimp as root!?!?!? Because he's a tough guy and so am I. :) Believe me, if it were MSware I /would/ beware. And, if something really bad happens and he loses all his files, well, he can just reinstall from scratch and start all over again. Some people never learn until they're burned. (I run netscape as root on one of my machines with nary a problem.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message