On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:52:11 +0000 Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
