Googlecl

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 16:18, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
>> It it in your best interests to get out of that habit.  You are going to
>> start seeing strange problems you don't understand, and things will break
>> in ways that are hard to troubleshoot and fix.  Your system sounds pretty
>> mixed up, and I'm guessing that running things as root unecessarily is a
>> contributing factor.
>
> I think you are talking nonsense.
>

He is not talking nonsense, he is trying to help you and you should
listen. I suspect that the difference between root and regular user is
not clear to you seeing how you tried to run what is obviously not a
system command as root. That is fine, there was a time when I didn't
know as well, and I ruined quite a few things learning. Let it be
clear that when you run a command as a regular user and it does not do
what you expect, running it as root is not the solution.


> I ran a command normally (as myself), and it did not work.
>
> So I ran it with sudo, to see if there were some permission problem.
> It still didn't work, so the problem was not one of permissions.
>
> This seems to me a perfectly normal procedure.
> I don't think my system is at all "mixed up", whatever that means.
>
> Personally, if I have a problem I try everything I can think of
> or that is suggested, to try to solve it.
>
> The question was, could I have contacts in my Google account
> that I could not see with my Firefox browser
> (which seemed just possible, since the Google toolbar
> is no longer available in Firefox)?
> Accordingly, I ran the CLI application googlecl
> (called google, confusingly), first as myself, and then with sudo.
> Neither saw any new contacts in my Google account.
>
> I don't know if you read my original query,
> but my problem is that my Android phone does not seem to be sync-ing
> with my Google account, although it says it is.
> This has nothing at all to do with my laptop,
> whose health you seem to be concerned about.
>
>




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