TRUE. Totally agree!
We are linux/unix users and we always know that we must know where the file
comes from.
It's a NECESSARY advice to newbies.
David Ballester Montolio
Responsable de Sistemas y Comunicaciones
Kern Pharma, S.L.
www.kernpharma.com
GNU!
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On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 18:37, Jon Lindberg wrote:
> Try running it frim a terminal (as root) ==> # /path/to/file.run ;-)
People! Be careful with your suggestions, you don't know where this file
is from, what it is, ... it could be anything from an installer to a
trojan horse. Randomly running stuff as root is not exactly what I would
suggest in this case.
Nils
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