Re: [PATCH] modules_install

Chris Ricker (kaboom@gatech.edu)
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:18:20 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Matthew D. Pitts wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> >
> > What happens if you aren't root?
> > And anyway, /root doesn't exist on all machines.

> It does on Slackware and Caldera that I know of and probably on Redhat as
> well. I don't have any experience with SuSe or any European distributions.

Wrong. It does as shipped. After I finish installing a RedHat system, it
doesn't.

There's no reason we should expect /root to be there. Furthermore, that's
the wrong approach to take anyway, since Alan and others have pointed out a
much cleaner solution.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                            kaboom@gatech.edu
                                               chris.ricker@m.cc.utah.edu
Je ne suis pas un Marxist.
	-- Karl Marx




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