On 6/8/20 9:41 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
On 2020-06-07 4:46 p.m., From: Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 6/7/20 10:31 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
Oddly 1) I was running as root... so*who/what* was the 'unauthorized
sender'? and
That sounds like a likely cause right there. Why are you doing that?
Wow! So running as root causes error messages? Pull the other leg, it
has bells on it!
Yes, running a graphical interface as root is likely to cause error
messages.
And why? Because this was immediately after a clean install to a brand
new drive, while I was still running upgrades and transferring files
from backup. Much easier to do that as root, so that is what I do. If
you want to type sudo a hundred times, go right ahead.
Running as root is not a disaster. Get over it.
It's not necessarily a disaster, but not a good idea. Many years ago I
used to always login as root because it was "easier". But then I
realized it was unnecessary, somewhat hazardous, and tended to cause
weird issues if I wasn't careful or even if I was. "sudo -i" is easy
and convenient. I always have several terminal windows open with that
running for the various root tasks like dnf, or checking things to
answer questions here.
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