Re: st: Updating Stata on a Unix box without logging in as root

[Partha Deb <partha.deb@hunter.cuny.edu>]

And thanks, Shige, but I'm still hoping that my vague memory of another 
solution, which involved making Stata aware that it was okay for a user 
(other than root) to invoke update, is correct.

Partha

On 10/4/2010 10:01 PM, Michael N. Mitchell wrote:
> This reminds me of this comic http://xkcd.com/149/ . I know this is 
> tangential, but I hope worth a good laugh.
>
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> On 2010-10-04 6.34 PM, Shige Song wrote:
> > Use sudo.
> >
> > Shige
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Partha 
> > Deb<partha.deb@hunter.cuny.edu>  wrote:
> > > I have a box running Suse Linus on which I have Stata-MP 11 installed.
> > >   Although I have administrator (root) privileges, I'd like to be 
> > > able to
> > > update Stata when I'm logged in as me.  I know I set this up on my 
> > > old box,
> > > but I can't, for the life of me, find any hint of how I did it.  
> > > Your help
> > > will be most appreciated.
> > >
> > > Cheers.
> > >
> > > Partha
> > >
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Partha Deb
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