Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:52:11 +0000
Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:
> On (15/02/07 22:47), Celejar wrote:
> > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with
> > sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user.
>
> I think you'll find 'du' complains if you run as a normal user. The
> reason being, it needs to descend into directories to gather usage
> information and ordinary users won't necessarily have access.
You're right, of course. In my original post and response to Hendrik I
only considered non-readable files. But my point still stands WRT
'dpkg'.
Celejar
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