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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!quagga.ru.ac.za!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.BSDI.COM!engr.orst.edu!newsfeed.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: "Faried Nawaz" <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Obtaining and building a kernel as non-root Date: 02 Sep 1996 01:27:24 -0700 Organization: dis. Lines: 24 Sender: nawaz921@snake.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <imn2z9midv.fsf@snake.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <slrn52k7k1.p0q.jerijian@lightning.seas.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: snake.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: jerijian@lightning.seas.ucla.edu's message of 1 Sep 1996 23:38:41 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <slrn52k7k1.p0q.jerijian@lightning.seas.ucla.edu> jerijian@lightning.seas.ucla.edu (Arthur D. Jerijian) writes: I've previously mentioned that I come from a Linux background, so I'm used to taking a Linux kernel source tree (say, linux-2.0.16.tar.gz), untarring it into my account as a non-root user, and proceeding to build it normally. Can something like this be done with the FreeBSD 2.1.5 kernel, or does the kernel need to be built as root specifically in the /usr/src/sys directory? I prefer to build it as a normal user because that's how I build all my packages (before su'ing over to root to do a 'make install'). You can cp -pr /sys ~/ and then build it from there. On my home machine, I am in the 'wheel' group; i do chmod -R g+w /usr/src/sys chgrp -R wheel /usr/src/sys and then build from /sys.