-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Pettigrew wrote: | In a previous message, Joe Dufresne wrote: | | |>thanks to your suggestion I've just built my first rpm. confused me a bit |>until i realized the package was runnable by root only, but thats a sudo |>issue | | | Checkinstall doesn't usually cause the installed program to be runnable by | root only - there must be something unusual about your app. | | John Yeah, it had a loose nut behind the keyboard. since I'd su'ed into root, I didn't think to log out and back in. once I did that, i could use it as a normal user. and yeah, I was root all the way. Joe - -- SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.4.20-4GB / i686 | Posted from: Dora ~ 7:56am up 0:17, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 0.24, 0.13 Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three -- and paradise is when you have none. -- Doug Larson nqs@tmcom.com | http://tigger.tmcom.com/~nqs/blogger.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/x3EeoS1S7SxfpzwRAjQjAJ9ithM0XylnhWWte0/cj12/TI0iJQCfXwiC ULPlcWkLKlwy6F8XZZN7KCo= =cOcM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----