Usurp, I appreciate your response. If possible, however, I would like for you to go into greater detail as to why I shouldn't run wine as root. Actually, I always login as a user, then upgrade to super user (I realize this is effectively the same as root). To my understanding, not running programs as root is only a security precaution and shouldn't affect program functionality. Am I wrong? Thanks, - Ray (aka Isaac) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sylvain Petreolle" <spetreolle@xxxxxxxx> To: <wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 10:10 AM Subject: RE: WinNY and Wine > Rule #1: dont run wine as root. > --- Isaac Rabicoff <irabicoff@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'm trying to figure out how to run Winny2b71 with wine-20050111-r1 on 2005.0 Gentoo Linux with > > kernel 2.6.11 r11 (I thought the version info might be helpful). The result is nothing-- no > > error message, nothing loads, nothing flashes. I have the program installed in > > /root/.wine/Apps/Winny2, and I use the appropriate ' wine "[path]" ' command to execute the > > program. > > > Kind regards, > > Usurp (aka Sylvain Petreolle) > > humans are like computers, > yesterday the BIOS was all > - today its just a word > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
