[plug] Linux developement

[Kim Covil]

> 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?

I do all my personal work under my home area... things I am 
downloading/compiling for the system I do under /usr/local/src... I 
create a group called local and change the group ownership of everything 
under local to it... then I add myself and anyone who needs to compile stuff 
for the system and install in /usr/local/bin to that group...

But that's me... :)

Kim

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