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 1FRIWD-00052a-00 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:38:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k360c2BI018882; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:38:02 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-02.tampabay.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.5.132]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k360U4r1023243 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:30:04 GMT Received: from keelie.localdomain (151.179.121.70.cfl.res.rr.com [70.121.179.151]) by ms-smtp-02.tampabay.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k360U2uM009534 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 20:30:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by keelie.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 861B7115E15 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 20:30:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jim) by localhost with HTTP; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 20:30:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <43062.127.0.0.1.1144283401.squirrel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10604051706v4bfa7fe6qc3c0c03d6ec4569@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10604051645t673f8d84v2d97535b17a3d4b7@mail.gmail.com> <44899.127.0.0.1.1144281033.squirrel@localhost> <49bf44f10604051706v4bfa7fe6qc3c0c03d6ec4569@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 20:30:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo difficulties From: "JimD" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 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: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: fad6f2be-e114-40f6-bced-7e61285e232e X-Archives-Hash: b838332e9162a0b4748997b3ec26eb21 On Wed, April 5, 2006 8:06 pm, Grant wrote: > > I actually tried that first and when that failed I tried something > like that specified here: > > www.gentoo.org/doc/en/sudo-guide.xml > > Either way I get: > > grant@system4 ~ $ /sbin/shutdown -h now shutdown: you must be root to do that! > > - Grant For sudo to work you need to run the command with sudo. Try: grant@system4 ~ $ sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now shutdown Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Florida, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list