From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OuWnv-0000ss-I9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:36:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA322E0AAF; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:35:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEE6EE0AAF for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:35:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DDAB1B40B3 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:35:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.911 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.911 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.312, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9V4vN64fh67n for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:35:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D76D41B4045 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:35:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuWlj-0007wr-Jm for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:33:51 +0200 Received: from athedsl-378698.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.31.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:33:51 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-378698.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:33:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: sudo in kernel config ? Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:34:07 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <201009111024.31634.stephane@22decembre.eu> <1284198419.2992.20.camel@paska> <201009112218.05042.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-378698.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100908 Thunderbird/3.1.3 In-Reply-To: <201009112218.05042.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4f80569a-3632-46ec-bff8-fe2d50920540 X-Archives-Hash: 36764f4afcb43ff54a0ca39c0c856560 On 09/11/2010 11:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 11:46 on Saturday 11 September 2010, Al= bert > Hopkins did opine thusly: > >> On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 10:24 +0200, St=C3=A9phane Guedon wrote: >>> few months ago, I read linux kernel in a nutschell(sic), and the auth= or >>> wrote we shouldn't do kernel operations (config and build) as root. >> >> I call bullsh*t. I've been compiling kernels for 17 years and for the >> most part have done it as root without any problems. > > Same here. > > The root user (sometimes portage) creates /usr/src/linux-* > > Someone tell me again exactly how user alan is supposed to build those > sources? chown -R