Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2

[Adam Shand <larry@alaska.net>]

> > It may not be pretty or proper but it seems to work.  Putting this is either
> > ~/.menu/ or /etc/menu and running update-menus as a user or root causes the
> > menu item to appear properly.  Hope this helps.
> 
> Right!!  I found this out at 2 AM this morning!
> 
> Two kudos tho, it works here in only /etc/menu or ~/.menu. It doesn't
> seem to work in /root/.menu.
> 
> Checking the output of update-menus doesn't even indicate it even checks
> /root/.menu.  So I have not been able to remove the netscape entries
> from Apps/net, yet.

i was poking around here and found this in the man page for update-menus.

    ~/.menu/*
        Menu files added by the user. (Isn't read if 
	root runs update-menus)

so it looks like root isn't supposed to be able to do this.

adam.