yellowdog-newbie Digest, Vol 17, Issue 13

[Francisco Oseguera G.]

Brian: you're going through a good deal of pain to get your YDL system well up and running; at the end, you'll rest assured that you have gained a lot of know-how about how to fix these annoying issues. But let me put my grain of sand for you to get a smoother transit into Linux.

How to execute commands by means of 'su' without leaving your own user acount? You do it this way:
$ su -c "here_goes_your_command /and --parameters" [ENTER]
...and it'll ask the root password. Notice the double quotes; the command has to be written between double quotes in order for the OS takes it as a unit.

Hope it still reaches you useful.

Francisco.

> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:00:21 +0100
> From: Brian Durant 
> Subject: YDL help for my G5.
> To: Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List
> 
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> Here are some pretty fundamental problems that I can't seem to get 
> around. These need to be dealt with before the problems in my last 
> posting are addressed:
> 
> 1) I can start a root session, but YDL doesn't recognize the root 
> password when I try to do a command like:
> 
> $ su tail -f /var/log/messages [ENTER]
> 
> $ sudo tail -f /var/log/messages [ENTER]
> 
> $ root tail -f /var/log/messages [ENTER]
> 
> (This is when I am in a normal user session)
> 
> 2) "yum check-update" returns something about some file missing in / 
> var/....
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brian
> 
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