On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:
there isn't a single difference between su - and loging in as root (ok one
the utmp entry, but that has nothing todo with anything major)
Well, MY experience has been that there are some
applications that can ONLY be run as "root." Editing system
files
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:
there isn't a single difference between su - and loging in as root (ok one
the utmp entry, but that has nothing todo with anything major)
Well, MY experience has been that there are some
applications that
At 12:20 13/07/99 -0400, you wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:
For a program to run as root and not when su - root, it would have to
step thru parent pid's looking specificly for su (it could test the parent
pids uid, they all eventualy lead to root), which is posible but ugly.
As for
John Aldrich wrote:
Okone I can give you right off the top is "timed" It
will NOT run as SuperUser, but it WILL run as "root." It
comes back with "timed command not found." This is from a
It will still run just fine as su, but you need to specify the path to
it. When you su, it
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
Okone I can give you right off the top is "timed" It
will NOT run as SuperUser, but it WILL run as "root." It
comes back with "timed command not found." This is from a
text-mode prompt, not a window prompt, just a standard
shell prompt. However,
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:
When you do "su" you don't always get the PATH environment of root
(depending on the system)
The above error was because "timed" is not in your path - not
because you cannot run it. Try "/usr/sbin/timed" instead.
Ahh...Ok. That makes a bit of sense there...
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:
You did just "su", not "su -". The difference is that "su -" reruns the
login scripts, etc., so you get the right PATH for root.
Ah. I just learned something new. :-) I didn't know about
"su -" Thanks. :-)
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John Aldrich
COL Tech Support
y 11, 1999 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] shutdown problem fixed
John Aldrich wrote:
Log in as "root" instead of a normal user. Try that instead of SU.
John
I did log on as "root"
It insists that my mtab and fstab files/Dir's are gone...
I'm going to st
as root (ok one
the utmp entry, but that has nothing todo with anything major)
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Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] shutdown problem fixed
John Aldrich wrote:
Log in
Are you editing the file as "root"? If not, that's a "system file" and only
"root" can edit it.
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Log in as "root" instead of a normal user. Try that instead of SU.
John
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Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] shutdown problem fixed
John Aldrich wrote:
there is.
I owe you guys.
I'll be back!
Rhich
"The Phoneless Guy"
Icq 8150164
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Subject: Re: [newbie] shutdown problem fixed
Jo
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Flight16 wrote:
For anybody else having the problem I was of a huge error crashing their system
whenever the shutdown script tried to halt, it is because of the power off command,
like Axalon said, but the specific problem comes from the -p parameter that tries to
Subject: Re: [newbie] shutdown problem fixed
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Flight16 wrote:
For anybody else having the problem I was of a huge error crashing their
system
whenever the shutdown script tried to halt, it is because of the power
off command,
like Axalon said, but the specific problem
Hmm...really? I didn't know you could edit a symlinkOTOH, I suppose you
can, now that I think about it... :-)
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Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] shutdown problem fixed
On Wed, 30
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