On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 16:18, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- 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
