yum as root question

[Benjamin Sher]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 02:23 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote:
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>>Paul Howarth wrote: 
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>>>On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 02:12 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote:
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>>>>Dear friends:
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>>>>My yum is now working fine as root. But I am wondering about the past. 
>>>>I've been running my new installation for several weeks, and I've been 
>>>>installing programs with yum as User instead of as Root.
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>>>I'd be utterly amazed if yum didn't tell you that that hadn't worked
>>>when you tried it:
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>>>$ yum install emacs
>>>You need to be root to perform this command.
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>>>>How has this 
>>>>past installation affected or will affect the current status of yum on 
>>>>my computer? It's working fine, I've installed several more programs 
>>>>(this time as root), but has my past mistake in any way corrupted or 
>>>>messed up the yum database? If so, what would you recommend that I do?
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>>>Tell us *exactly* how you were installing programs using yum as a
>>>regular user.
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>>>Paul.
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>>Dear Paul:
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>>I see your point. Obviously, I was INSTALLING programs only as Root. I
>>apparently confused "installing" a program as root with my practice of
>>having yum list programs, both "installed" and "available" as User. I
>>was running the command "yum list available" and "yum list installed"
>>as user. That's what temporarily messed up yum. Would doing this have
>>any permanent effect on the yum database?
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>No. Permissions in Unix/Linux are there to protect you from screwing
>things up, even if at times it seems that they're just there to get in
>your way. Your database will be fine.
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>Paul.
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Dear Paul:

Now that's very reassuring! Happy Fourth of July!

Benjamin


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