gnome warning

[rilian]

On booting up I get gnome warning that I am running it on root and it might damage file sytem. What ?? How can I fix??

[Eccentric]

You can't fix it. It's basically telling you that you are root, and you might want to be careful when using the file manager.
I think there might be a check box to tell it not to show you that again. If there isn't, then just don't log on as root. Create a regular user account, and "su" to root when you need root priviledges.

[FamMan]

That is exactly what I do Eccentric.
It's also the best way if you are a Linux novice. I can't believe how many times I had to reinstall Linux because of crazy mistakes I made while as root.
I know a hell of allot more now...but, if I did it the way that is mentioned here I would have saved allot of time from reinstalling.

[Eccentric]

Don't feel bad. I'm a Solaris Admin, and once a week, the "other" person in this building with the root password, does something stupid. Today he typed as root:

chown -R hostmaster /var/mail/

I work for an ISP, and none of our 10,000 customers could download mail.

Kinda pisses me of, but hey, it's part of the job.

The biggest mistakes I make are using "mv".
I've moved "/bin" to various places just by forget to type something. "mv" and "rm" are the most dangerous commands to use as root.