installing .run files

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Fri Feb 20 17:44:08 UTC 2004


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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