Re: An experiment in backup
On Saturday 17 January 2015 13:38:10 Kevin O'Gorman did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> > On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> startx
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I did
> > >
> > > sudo startx
> >
> > I haven't been following your thread, but it is highly unrecommended
> > to be root when you startx.
> >
> > <[🔎] slrnmbl5p5.22m.curty@einstein.electron.org">https://lists.debian.org/[🔎] slrnmbl5p5.22m.curty@einstein.electron.org
> > >
>
> I'm trying to learn here, so it would help if I knew why, or at least
> got a link to such an unrecommendation.
Ok, consider that it touches lots of files, converting them to root:root
owner;group. Now the user is hosed because he cannot configure, or even
autoconfigure himself a working x install. It can be fixed, but its the
equ of painting yourself into a corner with paint that takes 3 days to dry
before it can be walked on.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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