[ale] weirdness

[Jim Kinney]

Sean,

When you explicitly use ~ it means to substitute the user home dir. So root sees root dir and $user sees their own dir. Thus root won't see your home dir.

Evolution is 99% self healing on its database of stuff for about the past 4-6 years. Mostly involves a reboot to kill off running evolution sub processes and let things settle when it restarts.

On June 5, 2016 1:27:28 PM EDT, kilpatms at comcast.net wrote:
>Basic problem:  Evolution has lost its mail folder database and can not
>display a new email nor can it send one out. (I do NOT like gnome and
>would IMMEDIATELY move the entire desktop to KDE but CentOs makes that
>almost impossible.)
>
>Anyway, in trying to unscramble the mess I discovered this oddity:
>As root when I do an <ls -al> on ~/.local/share, I get this:
>
>drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root   57 Jan 11  2015 .
>drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root   18 Aug 26  2014 ..
>drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 Oct 18  2015 akonadi
>drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root   54 Aug 26  2014 icc
>drwx------. 3 root root   20 Jan 11  2015 nautilus
>drwx------. 4 root root   29 Aug 26  2014 Trash
>
>
>But when I run the same command as user, I get this:
>
>[kilpatms at localhost share]$ ls -al
>total 52                                                               
>                                                        
>23 kilpatms  1000 4096 Jun  5 08:07 .                                  
>                                            
>3 kilpatms  1000   18 Aug 17  2014 ..                                  
>                                           
>5 kilpatms  1000 4096 Jun  5 07:51 akonadi                             
>                                           
>4 kilpatms  1000   35 Aug 17  2014 akonadi_maildir_resource_0          
>                                           
>2 kilpatms  1000 4096 Apr 26 08:30 applications                        
>                                           
>2 kilpatms  1000   31 Aug 17  2014 contacts                            
>                                           
>7 kilpatms  1000 4096 Jun  5 08:14 evolution                           
>                                           
>2 kilpatms  1000   30 Aug 17  2014 folks                               
>                                           
>3 kilpatms users   21 Sep 13  2014 gegl-0.2                            
>                                           
>2 kilpatms  1000   79 Aug 18  2014 grilo-plugins                       
>                                           
>2 kilpatms  1000   76 Jun  5 07:56 gvfs-metadata                       
>                                           
>2 kilpatms  1000 4096 Jan 14 14:38 icc                                 
>                                           
>2 kilpatms  1000   46 Jun  5 07:56 keyrings                            
>                                           
>5 kilpatms  1000   36 Aug 17  2014 local-mail                          
>                                           
>5 kilpatms  1000 4096 Nov 12  2015 mime                                
>                                           
>3 kilpatms users   20 Apr 15  2015 nautilus                            
>                                           
>5 kilpatms  1000   36 Aug 17  2014 notes                               
>                                           
>1 kilpatms users 9061 Jun  5 08:07 recently-used.xbel                  
>                                           
>1 kilpatms users 9475 Jan 28 21:52 recently-used.xbel.G221BY           
>                                           
>3 kilpatms  1000   28 Aug 17  2014 telepathy                           
>                                           
>2 kilpatms  1000    6 Aug 18  2014 totem                               
>                                           
>3 kilpatms  1000   17 Aug 18  2014 tracker                             
>                                           
>4 kilpatms  1000   44 May 21 09:01 Trash                               
>                                           
>1 kilpatms users 1478 Jan 15 22:23 user-places.xbel                    
>                                           
>1 kilpatms users    0 Jan 15 22:23 user-places.xbel.tbcache            
>                                           
>2 kilpatms users   20 Mar 18 11:10 vlc                                 
>                                           
>  3 kilpatms  1000   25 Aug 17  2014 webkit  
>(PERMS deleted for brevity)
>
>So on the command line as user I can reach ~/.local/share/evolution,
>but as root I can NOT do so!
>
>WTF!
>
>I tried removing and reinstalling Evolution. Didn't help.
>Two questions:
>
>1.  Does anyone have an explanation for this oddity? Note that as root,
>the ls command misstates the ownership of the files as well.
>2. Can anyone point me to a repo for CentOs/Fedora that has the missing
>parts of KDE, specifically kmail?
>
>
>Sean
>
>ps  Had to send this out via webmail
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