On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:14 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip]
> > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > > sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user. > > Won't they have a hard time with directories and files that are not > readable by the normal user? No. dpkg just queries /var/lib/dpkg/status, which is world readable, and 'du' works perfectly well on non-readable files: ~$ cat /etc/shadow cat: /etc/shadow: Permission denied ~$ du /etc/shadow 1 /etc/shadow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
