On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:16:46 -0700 wes <[email protected]> dijo: >how do you "change to root" ? I'm betting it's with sudo su rather >than just su. When you use sudo, it asks for jjj's password instead of >root's. > >There are 2 solutions available: change your script to use sudo in >front, or just have the commands run as root automatically on a >schedule via cron.
Thanks for the heads up. Of course sudo su uses jjj's password, and I must have done that, although I could swear I used just su. I say that I must have done that because just now I tried su and got an authentication error. I suspect there is no root password set on the computer. I think Ubuntu does not set a root password by default. And, after thinking about it, the cron approach sounds simpler. I could set it to run just once a month, which would be sufficient to keep the clock reasonably current. Off to figure out cron. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
