Re: how to set up 'no need for ability to handle multiple users on machine'
- From: Paul J Gans <gans@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:19:30 +0000 (UTC)
toby989@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
alrightalright, I see running as root is not so good. Yes on my windows, I am
running always, not as admin, but as user having admin rights.
Independent of that, what I was thinking is that if there is, and will be, only
one user (apart from root) on the system, then there is no need to distinguish
between multiple users, and a specific user folder is obsolete.
Then, from the mess that I saw over the years in windows, some (many)
applications give a s**t about the personalized "My Documents" folders and store
user documents somewhere on c:. I expect this ignorance be the same for suse.
On the other hand, where should data sit that I serve to the user on the system
and potentially other users on the network. I guess my question is, where does
for example MySQL store the data, under the "Documents" folder of my user?
But I see that I may need to switch to relative paths, away from my years-old
way of having absolute paths (c:\project\project1\code).
Linux is NOT Windows. In Windows you are carefully led. There
are "secret" directories. There is continual nagging that your
firewall is turned off (when it isn't). You have to reboot your
machine after each of the all-to-frequent operating system patches.
And basically, the system exists for Microsoft's convenience, not
yours. And the system won't really let you do anything it considers
bad.
In Linux you have much more freedom. Nothing is truly hidden. You
can accompish a lot more that way, and you can get into a lot more
trouble too.
You are right that Linux is lacking decent documentation for the
newbie. The general rule is that any application generating data
will store that data where you tell it to. Internal data is either
stored in some spacial place (you don't have to know about it, but
can find it) or in one of the two or three "temp" or "tmp" directories.
For examle Firefox stores its data in your home directory in a file
named .mozilla. Notice the leading period. Those directories are
not normally show when you do an "ls". But you can see them if you
do "ls -l". Go to that directory and browse around in it. You won't
hurt anything.
Generally to find out information about a program, type "man <programname>"
at a prompt. Leave out the quotes and replace <programname> with
the name of the program you are interested in.
For example, type "man ls" and stand back. You will get more information
than you ever wanted to know.
Similarly, type "man firefox" and again, get information that Windows
never tells you about.
Linux is YOUR system. It belongs to nobody else. Enjoy it.
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--- Paul J. Gans
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