Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:47:37PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:02:31 -0600
> Default User <xyzzyx@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Doing "sudo du -BKB /lib64" does indeed show 2793kB in /libc64. Yikes!
> >
> > Doing "sudo dpkg -l libc64*" returns: "No packages found matching
> > libc64*." Since "sudo dpkg -l" returns a list of several hundred (at
> > least) packages, I am guessing that the libc64* qualifier would list
> > "64-bit" programs actually available to the system (and not just having
> > files present on a hard drive). Or something like that.
> >
> > I was absolutely stunned to learn that 64-bit code is made available to
> > a 32-bit system, even if it's not used. I'm too old for all this
> > learning . . .
>
> Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with
> sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user.
Won't they have a hard time with directories and files that are not
readable by the normal user?
-- hendrik
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