Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Thursday 27 July 2006 17:06, Basil Chupin wrote:
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I am not having the problem you describe. I can update as a user from the icon in the system tray (after I enter the root password, of course).
Yeah, I think we're both still not on the same wavelength/terminology here TBH. At the risk of flogging the proverbial deceased horse:
There are three pertinant smart operations: check - Is smart cache aware of any updates update - Look for new packages on repos, and update cache upgrade - Install new packages from repos.
The old (<=10.0) susewatcher tray app could do the equivalent of update & check without requiring root password or priv. The Smart equivalent of the susewatcher app (ksmarttray) can only do check unless you run it as root. I do not want to enter the root password every time I login.
Well, we are slowly narrowing it down... At my end, smart, in the system tray, does do the update and checking without requiring the root password. When there are updates, the icon blinks. Only when I want to actually do an upgrade do I need to enter the root password. As I mentioned earlier, had you not entered the root password at the first running of smart - where you had the option of answering IGNORE - then you will not be asked to enter the root password. In fact, I think, from memory, you are asked for the root password at every logon so next time answer IGNORE. smart remembers this setting and won't ask you for it (it doesn't do it at my end) and the icon in the system tray will be running in "user mode". (Perhaps re-installing smart might make it behave 'normally'?)
By clicking on the ksmarttray I also am able to enter my root password, and upgrade packages, but unless I enter my root password at login
See above.
I will not see the blinking tray icon to tell me I need to click on the thing.
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(While you are on that site why not join the smart forum there? The author(s) of smart are active there so you can discuss matters directly with him/them.)
Strewth! I can barely keep up with the SuSE and MythTV mail list I'm already on. Might make some suggestions though. I was half tempted to try and make some minor changes/updates to ksmarttray. If only I knew C++ ;-)
:-) There isn't much traffic in that forum - unlike here - so you won't be overwhelmed. Less than 10 msgs/week roughly.
Anyway, thanks for the discourse. It helped me solidify my thinking, and come up with a temporary workaround (the cron job).
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