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Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)



On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:48:25AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> You were right and I was wrong about directories (I've ceratinly seen
> those 'permission denied' du messages). But since your message
> mentioned files in addition to directories, I carelessly fired off my
> response :).

So in conclusion:

    You don't need to *always* use du as root

    You may need to use it as root occasionally

    In this example, calling du on /lib64, you do not need
    to be root

No absolutes, either way :)


-- 
Jon Dowland



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