From: Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] permissions problem
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 18:56:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640602041756r60d662dcr125b1f117be19a1f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DCCB8BB6-D81F-4AA0-B049-E26AD28DE6D0@jolet.net>
On 2/4/06, John Jolet <john@jolet.net> 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.
Try doing "strace sudo ..." as root. That should at least tell you
what system call is returning -EPERM.
-Richard
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-05 0:39 [gentoo-user] permissions problem John Jolet
2006-02-05 1:56 ` Richard Fish [this message]
2006-02-05 2:24 ` John Jolet
2006-02-05 2:59 ` Jerry McBride
2006-02-05 6:58 ` Richard Fish
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2023-08-15 14:55 [gentoo-user] Permissions problem Peter Humphrey
2023-08-15 16:38 ` Stefan Schmiedl
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