Stupid NetBSD/SIMH question

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Thu Jul 29 14:28:48 2004

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 12:31, rcini_at_optonline.net wrote:

> I'm playing wround with the SIMH VAX emulator and I'm running NetBSD 1.6.2. I'm not too strong on Unix/variants so this might be a stupid question. I want to play around with some of the included games but I can't get them to run.
>
> I'm logged in as root (by default, the disk image has only one user) and there's a games directory under /usr/games. Here are two typical entries:

Well, RTFM :-) There are a lot of OK intro's to unix, you shoudl check
one out.

FIrst, you shouldn't be running programs as root, just as you shouldn't
run things as administrator on windows. It's bad practice, I know it's a
sim, but habits carry over...

Root user environments are often less casual and friendly (eg. paths)
than normal users, and you ought to get in the habit of configuring it
right (eg. in your .bashrc or whatever to match your shell).

I of course recognize that your first (few!) times out, you'll make a
mess of the disk, etc, which is perfectly fine -- explore! You can
always reload, and doing it wrong is often tyhe best way to figure out
what's a right way -- but then switch to the (a) right way... :-)
Received on Thu Jul 29 2004 - 14:28:48 BST