On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:24:15 -0700 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
>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. After an hour of trying to make sense of cron I gave up. I'm sure it's an amazing tool that will do wonderful things, but I don't need to do wonderful things. I installed gnome-schedule, which appears to be a GUI front end for cron. Unfortunately, the documentation does not match the application and there appears to be no way to run a command with it as root or as superuser. So I edited my script and put sudo in front of both commands, made a gnome-panel icon to launch it in a terminal, and it is working fine. I'll run it whenever I notice the clock doesn't match my watch by enough to care about. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
