Re: [Gretl-devel] [Gretl-users] Git updating

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015, Clive Nicholas wrote: I have the feeling that you're not fully aware of the consequences of "sudo-ing" commands. https://xkcd.com/149/ What "sudo" does basically means "I'm not speaking to you now as myself, but as root, the omnipotent - and not necessarily benevolent - ruler of this piece of hardware". This means that if you run something that writes files onto your hard disk, then those files won't belong to you, but to root, and of course when you go back to your humble and mortal self, those files will be stubborn and refuse to submit to your will "Who are you? I belong to root! You impertinent peasant! I'll have you flogged!" This is why you should keep usage of sudo to an absolute minimum (or use it all the time, which however sort of defeats the purpose). ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------