On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:50:26AM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > no X program should ever be run as root. period. > > I disagree. well your wrong then. > When I first tried the new build of galeon, I mistakenly ran one of my > old builds, and reported success. When I realized the error, and > discovered the new build wouldn't run, I ran galeon as root to test > whether there was a permissions issue. > > So, I didn't intend to use it as a web browser, merely to test what my > error was. running things as root should never even be on your list of things to try when something is broken. this isn't Windows NT. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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