From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F5aCe-0005Sy-Mt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 03:04:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1533W6q032765; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 03:03:32 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [216.148.227.153] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k152xYjI022833 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 02:59:34 GMT Received: from spinner (c-68-37-116-95.hsd1.nj.comcast.net[68.37.116.95]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20060205025943m13009d8a6e>; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 02:59:43 +0000 From: Jerry McBride Organization: TEAM-GENTOO To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] permissions problem Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 21:59:42 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602042159.42978.mcbrides9@comcast.net> X-Archives-Salt: 1997383b-2dea-463e-bc20-a60747e74823 X-Archives-Hash: 44ccee102ee5eff4d922cd5fd55fcb5d On Saturday 04 February 2006 19:39, John Jolet wrote: > Okay, I give up. I've been struggling with a couple of very, very > strange permissions problems for months. I just finished an emerge - > e system and emerge -e world hoping it would fix it. first problem: > trying to use sudo, but it keeps saying "can't open sudoers file, > permission denied". even if i'm root doing sudo it tells me that. > here is permissions on /etc/sudoers: -r--r----- 1 root root 1643 > Feb 3 04:48 /etc/sudoers > here is sudo itself: ---s--x--x 1 root root 97104 Feb 4 08:53 /usr/ > bin/sudo > > I've compared this to other, working gentoo boxes and it all seems > the same. In addition, I'm trying to run MailScanner and if I try to > have it run as postfix, I get a message that it can't open it's > MailScanner.conf, even though i've made that owned by postfix. Not > sure if that's related, but it seems it could be. Root should be able to read anything.... yes. If this was my computer, I'd go into single user mode, set the partition read only and run fsck on it. Use the -N switch on the first pass and see if everything is alright with the file system. -- ****************************************************************************** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! Buy an Xbox 360 core for $299.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $11.00! Buy an Xbox 360 for $399.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $126.00! 9:49pm up 139 days, 13:14, 4 users, load average: 2.68, 2.27, 2.14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list