Sunday, August 7, 2011

Dropbox and SELinux

Since the number of computers I'm using is drastically increasing in the last couple of years ( both private and business ) the need to share data across those systems increased as well.

Dropbox is the perfect solution for me to solve this issue.

Though there have been discussions about the privacy of your data on dropbox, I can live with the explanation dropbox gives.

The silver bullet of dropbox to me is the fact that I can sync my data across all my systems, being Windows, Android and Linux ( though still no client for my Bada phone, guess I'll have to face the music and buy me a new phone ).

I must admit I did have some problems getting the Linux client software to work. It would not install properly, stopping at 97% when it tries to download the daemon. Apparently SELinux had something to do with it. Luckily I came across this excellent article, which helped me fix this.

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