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From: mjr@decuac.DEC.COM (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Installation woes (Re: Passing on unwanted groups)
Message-ID: <3291@decuac.DEC.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 90 20:14:51 GMT
References: <3ND5KOC@xds13.ferranti.com> <5fq0f2.zm6@smurf.sub.org> <1990Aug30.164310.8647@warwick.ac.uk>
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In article <1990Aug30.164310.8647@warwick.ac.uk>, cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson) writes:

> Not everyone likes building software as a (semi)privilidged user (ie. news)
> and I'd like to build it as myself, and THEN install as root and news.

	I've taken to doing the configuring and building as myself, and
when I get around to installing it, I'll just chown the whole subdir tree
to news and work from there.

mjr.
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