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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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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-05  2:08 UTC|newest]

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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-08-15 14:55 [gentoo-user] Permissions problem Peter Humphrey
2023-08-15 16:38 ` Stefan Schmiedl

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