On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 05:30:26AM -0500, Jerry Human <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| This is about one of the biggest frustrations I've found with all
| flavors Linux. Practically every time I find a command or program I want
| to use, BAM ... Permission Denied. [...]
| Obviously, the problem above with rdate is permissions. Being a system
| function it must be run as root. However, all docs say "don't run as
| root except to perform system maintenance" and I ran it as a user, like
| a good student. But being the only user I need to run it as user, not
| root.
Setting the system clock _is_ system maintenance.
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas;
but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
- H. D. Thoreau
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