ksmarttray and updates

[Christoph Thiel]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Stephen Boddy wrote:

> > (2) When running ksmarttray as non-root, if I right-click on the icon 
> > and select "check" or if I hover over the icon, ksmarttray never 
> > reports that updates are available.  If I click on the icon, then I am 
> > asked for the root password and the cache is loaded, but again there 
> > are no updates.
> 
> Try running smart-update as a normal user. This is the command that 
> ksmarttray actually runs. You, like me, will probably get:
> 	error: Configuration is in readonly mode.
> This is because as a regular user you cannot write to the folder/files 
> that smart uses (/var/lib/smart). There was another guy (Basil, I think) 
> on the SuSE list that swears this all works for him without running 
> ksmarttray as root, but I cannot understand how he has managed this.

He most likely just started ksmarttray via his start-menu. It makes sure 
to run ksmarttray as root, which is the only way to go ATM.


Regards
	Christoph