Desktop application sandboxing for Linux

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  1. mack_guy911

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    Thanks for the info. Sounds interesting. And he says they are using it for WebLive so it should be getting a nice workout.
     
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    The Lucid version stands at 0.3.2 while in Maverick onward they are using 1.0. Just getting ready to try it in Lucid even if it is is rather old.

    Later...

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    I installed Arkose from the PPA for Lucid, which, again, uses version 0.3.2 instead of 1.0, and all I'll say is you'd best be careful with this one. In the gui I chose to have the sandboxed files deposited in my home folder (.arkose), which took away the requirement to log in as root everytime, but I closed out Firefox improperly once (I closed Terminal instead of Firefox) and was left with over 2 gigs of root owned data in /home/user/.arkose that I just couldn't get rid of afterwards. I tried to "chown user -hR .arkose" this folder a number of times but to no avail. It was my own fault, of course, but still it was a pain. I will say that it functioned fine up until my blunder, though I did receive an error message from Firefox each time it opened related to firefox-bin not opening properly. The folder /home/user/.arkose did empty itself after each Firefox closeout.

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    Hi Trespasser,

    Did you try?: sudo chown user -hR .arkos

    -- Tom
     
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    lsattr to see the file attributes (perhaps i bit is set).
    chattr -i to remove immutability and then be able to delete.
    Mrk
     
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    Of course. Thanks for your reply.

    Mack_Guy,
    Don't feel too sorry for me, but thanks anyway. I was able to CloneZilla my way back to normalcy easy enough.

    Mrk,
    Thanks for that bit of info. Next time I find myself in that type of situation again at least I'll know what to do.

    Later...
     
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