superuser or root?

Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 08:53:50 -0300 (ADT)
From: "David L. Potter" <potter@chebucto.ns.ca>
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Hi Jim... root and superuser are thes same thing. Unix and like systems
provide these names for us poor humans. The real powers exhibited by these
accounts are more closely vested in the 'uid' (user ID). 'root' and 
'superuser' account will share uid '0'.

Back to the install...

You specified a directory for CSuite... what we call CS_ROOT. (The
default is /var/csuite) In the directory CS_ROOT/build (/var/csuite/build
?) will be one or more files make.install-csuite.12514 where the last
group of numbers is the process id when you ran cs_build.

This/these file(s) contain a record of the install (the info that scrolled
past as the install proceeded.

To check on (for example) zmailer you can grep for zmailer in that file.
You could also grep for 'error' or any other word/text string that you're
curious about.

david potter



On Sat, 8 May 1999, James R. Hay wrote:

> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> When I tried installing csuite as a superuser some things didn't seem to
> work as I expected and not everything worked nor did the routine dump me
> into an editor when I expected.  
> 
> I then tried running csbuild as root and that seemed to work better but
> some things like zmailer and httpd don't seem to have been installed.  
> 
> Does it doing any harm running csbuild multiple times?
> 
> Also should you be root or can it be done through sudo?
> 
> I may delete what I have and try installing from scratch as root and see
> how much better that works.  
> 
> James R. Hay			jim@clublibertel.qc.ca
> Technical Co-ordinator		
> Club Libertel de Montreal	jrhay@haya.qc.ca
> 
> 

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