Pete Travis wrote: >> > Why do you need to run this as root? >> >> I ran it with and without sudo, >> just to see if there was any difference. >> There wasn't. > 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. 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. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
