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 1F5ZKZ-0005oh-IV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 02:08:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k15271vP025580; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 02:07:01 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.192]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k151twFE008176 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 01:55:59 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i28so907198wra for ; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:56:09 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=f7RoOm5c8ASo22kOLh2Zss5O8Nw2lP2QAjplmE3MIl7K0NpTwSQSNrrrxRa/txAK5tSHEewfF6VkkZ627pmtkZnNaq6PNegZG++sTiq7mbkyRz7v0keaD8yVWtej4RpWiMKPSiYFgxk6M6q2QIiO3VHW1pKQmXN51B7qyNM+kR4= Received: by 10.54.122.20 with SMTP id u20mr2863702wrc; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:56:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.126.2 with HTTP; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 17:56:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640602041756r60d662dcr125b1f117be19a1f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 18:56:08 -0700 From: Richard Fish Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] permissions problem 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-Disposition: inline References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k151twFE008176 X-Archives-Salt: dee3c03d-d1f4-4f21-ad01-cd5779d2a82e X-Archives-Hash: ca7b8bda316d07da05d1fa069f21b125 On 2/4/06, 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. Try doing "strace sudo ..." as root. That should at least tell you what system call is returning -EPERM. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list