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Re: Educational-specific package popularity-contest



On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:19:11PM +0200, RalfGesellensetter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> thank you for setting up this tool. I consider it a great chance to 
> assess the acceptance for available educational software.
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2005 13:18 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen:
> > To participate, run this script as root


Mmmmm,  "as root", I better be alerted


> On admin-discuss@skolelinux.org, Finn Arne showed a way to run the 

Okay, the adience are system-administrators.

> script directly from within its web location. As root just enter this 
> line:
> 
>  wget -qO - http://developer.skolelinux.no/popcon/participate.sh | bash
> 
> This forwards the content of participate.sh directly to your bash. 

So your system will be under control of the script.


> Please participate!


You are right, I shouldn't warn explicietly about hijacking a system.


Cheers
Geert Stappers
-- 
The problem with mankind is stupidly.
Why not just remove al the safety labels
and let the problem solve itselfs?

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