[tahoe-dev] newbie question

[Two Spirit]

And people do what they are expected to do? I can't speak for the rest of
the world, but yea, I guess there are a lot of  "users" like myself who run
as root and have no clue what we are doing.  My experience with file
systems is that you have to run as root for any file system stuff. I'm sure
there are a lot of people who share my background.

My idea was a one sentance, standard WARNING disclaimer indicating
1) this should be done as a non-root user or
2) this doesn't need to be done as root
somewhere in the running.rst maybe before the first command 'To construct a
client node, run "tahoe create-client"....'

Another hint that might have helped me would be if there were actual
command line examples showing the commands run with a '$' as the prompt (
instead of '#' ), this might have tipped me off that these are user level
commands.
like

To construct a client node, run
      $ tahoe create-client



On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:58 AM, markus reichelt <ml at mareichelt.com> wrote:

> * Two Spirit <twospirit6905 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > By default, tahoe looks in $HOME/.tahoo (I think).  So you'll
> > > have to be careful about root vs non-root.
> > always a good rule not to run as root, but when I create file
> > systems, I'm usually root, so I think this would be good to put a
> > short warning in the quickstart.
>
> Negative, ghostrider. If you run something as root, you are expected
> to know what you are doing.
>
> What would your idea of said short warning look like?
>
>
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