On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 02:02:28AM +0000, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear Alan:
>
> Thanks for the advice. Appreciate it.
>
> HOWEVER, there is an Update button on Mandrake's Desktop. It must be
> there for a purpose. Indeed, when you click on it, it opens up sends
> down various rpms for your select, asks you for your root password,
> reviews the packages and then clams shut. This is a bug, not a feature
> :) If you are going to have an Update button on your user's desktop, it
> ought to work. The update button on root's desktop works fine. It works
> exactly the same way as user (of course, it doesn't have to ask for a
> password). The difference is that it delivers the goods, fetching and
> installing the rpms perfectly. Now that's what I would like to see on
> the user's desktop, too.
I've noticed this problem as well, along with the unauthorized connection
errors on the console from attempting to run it.
I don't know whether the original MandrakeUpdate worked correctly or not,
since I think I probably ran that one as root. I can, however, verify that
the MandrakeUpdate carried in /update does not work correctly as a normal
user.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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