Re: [HACKERS] make install fails in perl5 ...

From: "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] make install fails in perl5 ...
Date: 1998-10-27 17:23:38
Message-ID: 3636019A.450482B9@alumni.caltech.edu
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> Hmmm. That's how I do it, although it *is* a PITA to chown everything
> to do the regression tests. It just seems odd to have one package
> install this way when all the other packages I install are done from
> root.

There is a security exposure to running the server as root. Other
packages can make their own security arrangements; this is ours.

My commercial Ingres package didn't run as root either.

- Tom

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