Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with sudo

[Willie WY Wong <wongwwy@member.ams.org>]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 10:41:12AM +0800, Penguin Lover 赵佳晖 squawked:
> I have use your method , it didn't work .
> Like:
> sudo echo "sys-boot/grub:2 **" >>
> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/package.keywords.grub2 echo
> "sys-boot/grub:2 **" | sudo tee
> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/package.keywords.grub2
> 
> And the result :
> zjhui@gentoo ~ $ ls -l
> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/package.keywords.grub2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul  1 10:37
> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/package.keywords.grub2
> 
> It's an empty file.

I think you misread the e-mail. The left hand side below is what you
**shouldn't** do. The right hand side is what you **should** do. So
you **should** run

echo "sys-boot/grub:2 **" | sudo tee /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/package.keywords.grub2

and no more. 

W

> 
> > If Neil is right, you may want to read man tee. It work roughly like
> > that:
> > instead of                       do
> > sudo echo sthg > /etc/file.cfg   echo sthg | sudo tee /etc/file.cfg
> > sudo echo sthg >> /etc/file.cfg  echo sthg | sudo tee -a /etc/file.cfg