Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 17:08:46 UTC 2007


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/

Dotan Cohen

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