Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-11 Thread Raakesh kumar
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Naresh Narang nknar...@yahoo.com wrote: -- Okay.. just to ask, Can you please tell me what actually happened to my system when i changed the permission of /etc directory? Why my system done into an inconsistent state? While as much theory i have read

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-11 Thread Arun Khan
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Aman Thakur aman.thakur.1...@gmail.com wrote: But Balvinder, i think that shows the heights of thinking of different users. So, i think this could be a good example for all linux users who are teaching linux or learning linux. Take it positively :) While we

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-11 Thread Arun Khan
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Raakesh kumar kumar3...@gmail.com wrote: Yes.. i am back in business now..:) That's great but in your place I would have saved a snapshot of the system for analysis. I tend to do this when I cannot resolve a problem and in the interest of time I need to move

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-11 Thread Raakesh kumar
[...] On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Raakesh kumar kumar3...@gmail.com wrote: That's great but in your place I would have saved a snapshot of the system for analysis. I tend to do this when I cannot resolve a problem

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-10 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Raju Mathur said on Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:02:00AM +0530,: Can somebody help me to get my system back as it was earlier.. Or is there any way to restore my system back? 1. Get a list of permissions of critical files in /etc/ from the 'net, a friend's machine, wherever. If this is

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-10 Thread Aman Thakur
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Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-10 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 10 Aug 2012, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: Raju Mathur said on Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:02:00AM +0530,: 2. Boot into root. I won't tell you how, there are enough pointers on Will moving #5 above this help? Sure, my principles are for sale, but only if the bid amount is appropriate!

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-10 Thread Raakesh kumar
On 8/11/12, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Friday 10 Aug 2012, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: Raju Mathur said on Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:02:00AM +0530,: 2. Boot into root. I won't tell you how, there are enough pointers on Will moving #5 above this help? Sure, my

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-10 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 08/11/2012 01:31 AM, Raakesh kumar wrote: I have reinstalled ubuntu again as going in recovery mode and doing those changes didn't work for me. @Balwinder Sir, I know i had made a mistake by doing so. But i was just doing a kind of experiment but without properly surfing about that...

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-10 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 11 Aug 2012, Raakesh kumar wrote: I have reinstalled ubuntu again as going in recovery mode and doing those changes didn't work for me. @Balwinder Sir, I know i had made a mistake by doing so. But i was just doing a kind of experiment but without properly surfing about that...

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-10 Thread Naresh Narang
-- Okay.. just to ask, Can you please tell me what actually happened to my system when i changed the permission of /etc directory? Why my system done into an inconsistent state? While as much theory i have read during my engineering about OSs, i hadn't done anything special/severe in

[ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-09 Thread Raakesh kumar
Hi All, Today i changed the permission of my /etc directory and it's sub directories and files using sudo nautilus. And now my everything including servers and all have stopped working. When i type sudo anywhere to use it shows an error as - sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0446, should be 0440 sudo:

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-09 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 08/10/2012 02:09 AM, Raakesh kumar wrote: Today i changed the permission of my /etc directory and it's sub directories and files using sudo nautilus. And now my everything including servers and all have stopped working. That's the most worst change any newbie like you can do. You should

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-09 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 10 Aug 2012, Raakesh kumar wrote: Today i changed the permission of my /etc directory and it's sub directories and files using sudo nautilus. And now my everything including servers and all have stopped working. When i type sudo anywhere to use it shows an error as - sudo: