Re: your mail

From: Al_Caro@computrition.com
Date: 10/19/01


From: Al_Caro@computrition.com
To: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:30:55 -0700

I agree. personally, I much prefer this Idea over setuid to root.

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  | To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> |
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Thus spake Will Andrews (will@physics.purdue.edu):
> > How about sending an email message to "root" with this message? It
solves
> > the problem of the message scrolling by during the installation...
> There is no precedent for this in ports. And I'm not sure that
> some people want to see this sort of thing...
Make a precedent then :)
It's a special case, I think it's good.
However, you should send mail to the installing user (`id`).
Alex
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