Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3785 mails)

[Hemo <hemo-sle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, John Lamb wrote:

> Hemo wrote:
> > YOU works logged in under root, but under my account I've been getting
> > this message in the log:
> > --
> > online_update -k
> > Error while requesting servers: ERROR(You:Error writing youservers file.)
> > --
>
> I had a similar problem on a machine I'd done an update to 8.2 on. You
> might find it helpful to read the file /etc/sysconfig/onlineupdate. I
> solved my problem by setting YAST2_LOADFTPSERVER="no" in that file,
> though I think you'll want to do something else.

Hmmm...  I don't have a /etc/sysconfig/onlineupdate file or directory.

>
> Also, have a look at /var/lib/YaST2/you/youservers or possibly
> /etc/youservers. Are the permissions on the first correct. It should be
> readable by anyone and writable by root.
>

Yup. -rw-rw-r--.

I should also mention this - I lost this functionality during one of the
YOU updates.  Can't remember which one.  Here's a neat thing - if I create
a new user account on my system, YOU and online_update work just peachy
for that new user.  Aaarrrgghhh.