On 2012-05-19, at 4:09 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012, Christopher Tooley wrote: > >> Dropbox works fantastically with Scientific Linux, >> and it's been around for a while now. > > Which SL and which DropBox implementation are you using ?
[root@<computer> ~]# cat /<NotRootUserHomeDir>/.dropbox-dist/VERSION && echo "" && cat /etc/redhat-release 1.2.52 Scientific Linux release 6.0 (Carbon) So, it's a slightly older version (OS and DB) > The packages I've tried either on SL5 didn't install > or run daemons as root - which I consider totally unacceptable > on a multi-user system. I assume you've tried these instructions? https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx Maybe they've changed since the last time? Dropbox is pretty active with their development. > "Selective Sync" - which appears to be new since I looked at > DropBox - may be the answer, but there used to be a requirement > that you kept as much free disk space on your computer as your > DropBox account had. That is a major issue when the DropBox > default quota is larger than the default quota we give our users. Ah. I am unsure if this requirement has changed. -Chris