yellowdog-newbie Digest, Vol 17, Issue 13

[Brian Durant]

Thanks. I was actually provided with an alternative way of doing this  
yesterday. I had to add myself to the /etc/sudoers. Now if I could  
only get all of my other problems sorted ;-)

Cheers,

Brian

On 30. jan 2006, at 16.23, Francisco Oseguera G. wrote:

> 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
> >
> > Message-ID: <09B4A86F-C62B-499D-92DE-55E1E49C8487 at MyRealBox.Com>
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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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