Root

Lothar Braun mail at lobraun.de
Wed Sep 13 23:04:09 UTC 2006


Hi Dave,

On Thursday 14 September 2006 00:58, David McCormick wrote:
> If you can do anything that can be done as root by using sudo why do I
> keep getting permission denied when I run make and make install?

what exactly are you doing?

Do you run 

sudo make && make install?

If so, only make will be run as root. If you want to run both as root, you'll 
have to run it like

sudo make && sudo make install

Regards,
Lothar
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