On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:44 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
When you find the time to explore cron Jason it's well worth the time spent. Maybe we could do a quick hits basics during one of the monthly meetings if we don't have speakers lined up to go over things like cron etc. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
