Installing hobbit help

[David Hay Currie]

I am trying to install hobbit in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 server. I
talked earlier with Red Hat and they say that they don't support rpm
which are not downloaded from the Red Hat network.

Well, no problem, I prefer not to call them about it that not to run
hobbit since it is extremely useful for me.

Anyhow, I had installed it in a virtual machine running fc5 and it was
quite easy to install. I am just starting as a Linux administrator, and
even I had administered Windows servers for years, the switch is not so
easy. I like Linux and I am quite excited to get the most of it, but
sometimes I stumble around, just like at this moment, so here go a
couple of my silly questions:

For security reasons I should not run hobbit as root. I understand that,
but should I run the installation as root, or as hobbit?

Which would be the best folder for installation? I know this is a bit
more open, but I would like the server to be kept clean, so I don't want
to spread the installation everywhere I want it to make sense.

I think with just a little bit more of info I would be able to get a
good installation going. Thanks in advance

 

David Hay Currie

Network Administrator

1 Hausel Rd. - Wilmington, DE 19801 

(302) 472-7854

 

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