07-22-2023, 05:15 PM
(07-22-2023, 03:47 PM)GareBear Wrote: After I wrote this. I found out in Linux, if the text file is restrictive on who has the read/write privilege to the file then Text Fetch will not show the text in the box. I hope this helps.
Yes sometimes Linux is very annoying when one only wants to look at a text file and it comes back with "Permission denied." There are some files in "/etc" and "/var" that require being superuser only to use "cat" or "less" or such other utility, and otherwise the system refuses to allow a regular user to open them with any program. Anyway one has to be careful with using a GUI program like GEdit to open and modify a protected text file.
A few text files have "history" in them, such that there are scary warnings to use a particular brand of the famous "vi" editor to deal with them. Such as "visudo" to edit the file that controls what goes on with often-used "sudo" terminal command. That is something else that makes me shake my head about Unix and its descendants.
The major thing is the system being unable or unwilling to allow a regular user to change the system time even if it's flatly wrong. And a few systems also being lame about allowing NTP sync enabled or not. On Windows this is not even thought about.