Craig White wrote:
If a tool does something useful, then it is probably useful for the administratorOn Fri, 2007-01-19 at 21:08 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:Craig White wrote:You lost me there... I'd expect superuser rights to be absolutely necessary forgiven the subject of beagle which is designed to crawl and index all available filesystems and file content makes it a rather poor candidate for superuser usage.something that needs access to all parts of the filesystem.---- If the tools are designed to run in user space, what is the point of indexing stuff that isn't accessible in user space?
and his files as well as everyone else. I'm not sure I follow your use of the term 'user space'. Normally this is used to distinguish between the kernel and all other processes. This is a very different concept than the difference between a non-administrator and the admin user (root).
I'll admit I haven't looked at what it really does. Are you saying every user needs his own instance and each will index all files accessible by that that user? That doesn'tTo clarify the point that seems confusing as pointed out in your question, on a Linspire system where the user is superuser, beagled would clearly run as root. On a Fedora system where superuser login to GUI is discouraged, beagle indexing everything for the superuser only would be rather pointless.
sound very efficient for a multiuser system.
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