> Hmmm. That's how I do it, although it *is* a PITA to chown everything
> to do the regression tests. It just seems odd to have one package
> install this way when all the other packages I install are done from
> root.
There is a security exposure to running the server as root. Other
packages can make their own security arrangements; this is ours.
My commercial Ingres package didn't run as root either.
- Tom