[plug] Linux developement

[Jason Nicholls]

G'day,

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 05:38:21PM +0800, Bradley Woodward wrote:
> So I've got a howto question.  Currently, I do all my work under /usr/src.  
> The trouble is that I can't write to this directory it from my normal 
> account, and need to su to root.  This can't be right though, I think.  Or is 
> the standard way of developing programs under linux to run all the tools as 
> root?  How do you profession linux programmers work?

What's stopping you from storing files under (say) $HOME/src or similar? I
suggest you don't use root unless you have to.


Later,

Jason Nicholls
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