On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Den <[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe you can accomplish the same commands with sudo as you would > without it after the sudo su. > For the most part, correct. There _can_ be issues with environment variables (sudo also sanitizes your environment for security reasons), but other than that rare issue i've found sudo a good replacement for su. A disturbing tendency i've noticed among novice users is to try to sudo any command that doesn't work as expected. As a sysadmin for a few hundred embryonic engineers I watch the sudo failures. Most of the time they're trying to install some package or other (which I often add to the standard build), but occasionally it seems to be some arbitrary command or code they've written. I've seen a user issue "command", which apparently failed so they tried "sudo command" - as if the broken C code they wrote will magically work if they run it as root. This sort of habit can/will lead to broken and hacked systems. No harm, no foul.... we are all just amateurs trying to have fun. Pleasure > communicating with you.. > yep, likewise. > Any suggestions on how to improve the Xastir mapping? > Get big companies to share their maps? The app-ification and profitization of the internet has resulted in fewer free resources. The folks that pay to have map databases created certainly have the right to do as they please with their property, but the desire to extract every nanocent of profit (either directly or in the form of harvested personal information which is then sold to marketers) has squeezed open source projects out of the picture. I prefer totally offline maps anyway, so I tend to use free data sources (like TIGER vector maps), spend some time with dbfawk to make them look the way I want, and go from there. The xastir team is on the lookout for free online sources, and not too long ago several new sources of topo and satellite maps were introduced. -Jason kg4wsv _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
