On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Girish Venkatachalam < [email protected]> wrote:
> $ su -c staff bin -c 'makewhatis /usr/local/man' This invocation is wrong. Unless of course there is a username called _bin_ and you supply its password! Did you try this command before posting? Only sudo takes login-class as argument for -c switch. In case of su the argument accompanying -c will be the command that will be passed to shell with -c switch. OP's question is not wrong. Read the man pages carefully. -- *அகிலன்* (Akilan R) (http://www.coding-aviator.blogspot.com) *I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.* --Jean Rostand _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
