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TeknoJnky
Feb 04, 2012Hero
dropbox installer
does this addon automatically install the latest dropbox linux release, or only a particular version? does the dropbox linux release update itself, or is it required to pay for another 'dropbox ins...
mdgm-ntgr
Feb 14, 2012NETGEAR Employee Retired
What I'm saying is that I can't see anything in the install.sh or remove.sh script that creates those additional folders so they must be created by dropbox binary itself.
I was referring to the date of the creation of the run_parts.sh script not the add-on itself. Though some files in the add-on are from 2011, some aren't.
When the Dropbox add-on is installed /tmp/rnxpkg/run* is moved to /c/.dropbox-dist. That is in the folder WhoCares? chose to temporarily place some files any files beginning with "run' will be moved to the /c.dropbox-dist directory. For whatever reason on your installation this file has been removed somehow. I can see no reason for why this would have happened. It is rather odd.
The ownership of /c/.dropbox-dist-old-d5xe2o looks rather odd. It should be owned by the admin user.
Can you do a
and check to make sure that all the files in that directory have owner and group both set to admin?
I was referring to the date of the creation of the run_parts.sh script not the add-on itself. Though some files in the add-on are from 2011, some aren't.
When the Dropbox add-on is installed /tmp/rnxpkg/run* is moved to /c/.dropbox-dist. That is in the folder WhoCares? chose to temporarily place some files any files beginning with "run' will be moved to the /c.dropbox-dist directory. For whatever reason on your installation this file has been removed somehow. I can see no reason for why this would have happened. It is rather odd.
The ownership of /c/.dropbox-dist-old-d5xe2o looks rather odd. It should be owned by the admin user.
Can you do a
ls -la /c/.dropbox-dist
and check to make sure that all the files in that directory have owner and group both set to admin?
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