-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On April 5, 2004 08:56 am, seth vidal wrote: > On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 11:13, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I need to use yum only for download of packages to central server and > > faced "minor" problem: namely yum refuses getting listing from the server > > unless yum is run by root. What are the reasons for this? I found > > corresponding code: > > > > # some misc speedups/sanity checks > > if conf.uid != 0: > > conf.cache=1 > > > > Can anybody explain side effects of me removing this "check" ? > > not much - if you're not running as root you can't update the cache, so > don't bother trying. but with the proper group permissions should be ok, right? > instead of checking perms on each run to see if the user can write to > the cache dir, just skip it if ther user is not root. so it was kind of shortcut instead of full-blown permissions check? Not to be pita, but just out of curiosity I wonder if that's going to change since this is not the most elegant solution (we have more than one admin downloading packages) maybe it's worth another option in config: check for 'root' or check for group? - -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator Athabasca University (780) 675-6245 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAcX82yDrVuGfS98QRAi3MAKCz42HxvMmDbZVLRSEz+OkylOc85QCgnc3s ugNmUSltIyX0m7qvofh4Jpo= =SZte -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
