emerge app-admin/sudo

Edit /etc/sudoers and add:

username ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/ner.wlan0

Where username is his login. To run it:
sudo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart

dcm


On 10/2/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>    We have a machine here, my son's, which runs Gentoo and uses (I
> think) a D-Link 802.11abg NIC:
>
> 03:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G
> 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
>
>    The setup uses ndiswrapper to load the Windows driver. For some
> reason this NIC seems to go off line quite a bit - maybe once a day.
> I'm assuming that this is caused by the Windows driver & ndiswrapper
> having some sort of problem that is probably light years beyond my
> ability to debug. However running /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart always
> seems to get it going again.
>
>    How can I set up the system to allow my son to run this command
> himself as a user? It appears that the script itself is runnable by a
> user, but when we try it I get a message that only root can run init
> scripts.
>
> Sector9 ~ # ls -al /etc/init.d/net.*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     6 Sep 16 10:14 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 -> net.lo
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30341 Sep 16 10:27 /etc/init.d/net.lo
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     6 Jul 29 11:31 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 -> net.lo
> Sector9 ~ #
>
>    Is there an easy way to make this one script runnable by my son so
> that when I'm not around he can get things going again?
>
>    On the other hand if there is an Open Source Linux driver for this
> card I'd love to install that  but I don't know of one.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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