[daip] Re: Installation Wizzard coming with 31DEC00 AIPS release

[Patrick P. Murphy]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:00:12 -0700, Eric Greisen <egreisen at NRAO.EDU> said:

> Michael Dahlem writes:

>> ... When installing the software under /root (where I am keeping all
>> software) 

Your choice, nothing wrong with that...

>> under user ID root

This is a bad idea.  Please either use your own account (after making, say
a /root/aips that is owned by you and not root with the right group id,
e.g. as root:

        bash# mkdir /root/aips
        bash# chown mdahlem.users /root/aips

and if you already have stuff unpacked there, do:

        bash# chown -R mdahlem.users /root/aips
        bash# cd /root/aips
        bash# find . -type f -exec chmod g+rw {} \;
        bash# find . -type d -exec chmod g+rws {} \;

to reconcile things.  Then you should be able to use the mdahlem account
to continue the installation.

> Pat Murphy may disagree, but I think it is a very bad idea to install
> AIPS as root

I totally agree with Eric.  The less one has to do as root on a system,
the better.

				- Pat