Greetings,
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, burns wrote:
> On January 14, 2002 09:13 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > If you're running a linux box as root and you execute a root only
> > executable and it comes back with...
> >
> > error: this must be run in root mode...
>
> Are you in a root session? Or are you only SU?
>
> If the latter, try logging into an actual root session.
Exactly. You're really only HALF-root if you just do an 'su' or an 'su
root'. You need to use 'su - root' in order to attain all of root's
profile, priveledges, and permissions...
--- Jay
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