Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Thu Apr 26 06:43:09 UTC 2007


On Apr 25 Dotan Cohen did spake thusly:

> On 25 Apr 2007 18:32:08 +0200, Ingemar Nilsson <init at pdc.kth.se> wrote:
>> "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > I've never had a software installation touch my personal files. You
>> > should save your work in /home/user, where software installation
>> > doesn't touch (with the exception of the dot files, where your work
>> > shouldn't be stored either).
>> 
>> That's not entirely true. I had some remote filesystems mounted using SSHFS
>> in a subdirectory to my home directory, and Yum complained about some
>> access permission in those remote directories when doing an update. I had
>> no idea why it would want to touch anything there.
>> 
>
> That certainly is unusual. I have no idea what yum would be doing
> poking around in /home/user/

SELinux updates check all the perms...

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