Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2
Date: Fri, May 14, 1999 at 03:53:16PM -0800
In reply to:Adam Shand
Quoting Adam Shand([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > > It may not be pretty or proper but it seems to work. Putting this is
> > > either
> > > ~/.menu/ or /etc/menu and running update-menus as a user or root causes
> > > the
> > > menu item to appear properly. Hope this helps.
> >
> > Right!! I found this out at 2 AM this morning!
> >
> > Two kudos tho, it works here in only /etc/menu or ~/.menu. It doesn't
> > seem to work in /root/.menu.
> >
> > Checking the output of update-menus doesn't even indicate it even checks
> > /root/.menu. So I have not been able to remove the netscape entries
> > from Apps/net, yet.
>
> i was poking around here and found this in the man page for update-menus.
>
> ~/.menu/*
> Menu files added by the user. (Isn't read if
> root runs update-menus)
>
> so it looks like root isn't supposed to be able to do this.
>
I didn't read it like that. I thought it meant that if ~user/.menu
had an item it wouldn't be picked up by root running update-menus. It
never occured to me that it wouldn't allow root to do it for him/her
self.
Shades of RedHat, root isn't smart enough to run Netscape
(because it's a Security issue) and just to rub it in he can't remove
it from his X menu!
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