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echo: synchronet
to: Gamgee
from: Digital Man
date: 2022-10-06 16:41:00
subject: Re: [wiki.synchro.net] pa

  Re: Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page changed: install:nix
  By: Gamgee to tracker1 on Thu Oct 06 2022 02:12 pm

 > -=> tracker1 wrote to wiki.synchro.net <=-
 >
 >  tr> Wiki edit of http://wiki.synchro.net/install:nix by tracker1:
 >  tr> [Creating the Synchronet Directory]
 >
 > An improvement, perhaps, but still...  my thinking is that somebody who
 > doesn't (already) know they can't create /sbbs without being root isn't
 > going to know how to do the "run as root" that you added.  They don't
 > know *how* to run that command as root.
 >
 > Would it be better to first instruct them to "su" to root, or to preface
 > the commands with "sudo"?  The example prompts ('$') might need to be
 > changed to '#' also...?  Just my (unrequested) input.  ;-)

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