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Questions about Catalyst [Resolved]

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Questions about Catalyst [Resolved]

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Post by Steve44224 » Wed Aug 08, 2012 5:43 pm

These questions seem a little silly to me, but I thought I'd ask before I do... :oops:

Will Catalyst modify my running system? For example: If I add a package to the Catalyst target does it get added to my running system?

For that to happen, I would need to run Catalyst as root. Do I need to run Catalyst as root?

Thanks

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Post by Steve44224 » Wed Aug 08, 2012 5:58 pm

Ok, that was easy. Yes you must be root to run catalyst. If you try to run catalyst without being root, it tells you:
!!! catalyst: This script requires root privileges to operate
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Post by Steve44224 » Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:25 am

The other answer is: Catalyst doesn't mess up your running system. I expected this, but I wasn't sure.

Depending on the contents of /etc/catalyst/catalyst.conf, catalyst typically does all of it's stuff in /var/tmp/catalyst
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