Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

["A. Khattri" <ajai@bway.net>]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Holly Bostick wrote:

> Echo is in the sudo-ed group, and echo isn't the problem-- the problem
> is that permission is refused to write to the file itself (which is an
> error *from* echo, so it would seem that echo itself is OK as far as
> sudo goes). Which means that I have to su anyway, to echo to the file,
> which really isn't the point of the exercise.

What is in /etc/sudoers?

Either the problem is there or maybe its because in some shells, echo is a
built-in command and in others its not (so /bin/echo comes into play).


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