Beagle

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Thu Jan 18 22:39:44 UTC 2007


On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Todd Zullinger wrote:

> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> This does not yet explain to me how to actually make it DO something
>> for me.  Is the user front end broken for root?
>
> Without offering any specific answer regarding beagle, I'd argue that
> nothing is broken is you're using the GUI as root.  What's broken is
> that you're using the GUI as root.  If you do that you should expect a
> lot of thing to not work and be prepared to live with them or fix them
> by submitting patches upstream if the issues you find are things that
> can be corrected without sacrificing the security of the package for
> normal users.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the beagle indexer will 
only run for the logged-in console user, and I suppose it's possible it 
doesn't run at all for root if not explicitly enabled.  The index is 
stored in the user's home directory.

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