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From: Mark Tinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:19:16 +0200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: lug_: 9.1 Professional is here
> On Wednesday 02 June 2004 16:09, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote:
> > suse 9.1 pro is cool indeed..
> >
> > at least, everything works out-of-the box on my new dell latitude d600.
> > (been struggling with freebsd lately :) )
>
> There's something I still need to figure out, though - don't know if it's my
> installation, but 'sudo' wants to root password when 'sudo su', rather than
> the password of the user I am currently logged in as - the user is already
> added to the sudo list of users.
>
man 8 sudo :
-u The -u (user) option causes sudo to run the specified command as a
user other than root. To specify a uid instead of a username, use
#uid.
-s The -s (shell) option runs the shell specified by the SHELL envi-
ronment variable if it is set or the shell as specified in
passwd(5).
> The other thing I found strange was the permissions on /dev/null were not
> default, right from the initial installation. /dev/null had taken on
> attributes of being a normal file i.e. -rw-rw-rw, rather than crw-rw-rw- .
> Deleting it and running mknod again solved the problem. But before then, you
> get interesting problems, like SSHD failing to start!
>
What did you install *recently*?
This could happen for any number of reasons.Certain programs may want to write to
/dev/null as a file or maybe a redirect from one of your cronjobs.Thank your lucky
stars it doesnt get changed everytime you boot.
Kabagambe Kenneth
> Mark.
>
> >
> > ernest.
> >
> >
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