Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-22 Thread Charles Galpin
It should have came with your CD, but can be found just about anywhere. Try rpmfind.net, then freshmeat.net charles On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, christopher j bottaro wrote: hey all, thanks for all the answers...=) i don't have that command (rpmfind)...=(

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-22 Thread David Brett
tall a lot of stuff too. this requires me to switch back and forth between superuser and my normal login. my friend told me that at his work, they have a das (do a superuser) alias on their play linux boxes. he says it works like this... das mv blah /usr/local 1) cha

superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread christopher j bottaro
i'm logged in as a normal user most of the time on my linux machine, but i download and install a lot of stuff too. this requires me to switch back and forth between superuser and my normal login. my friend told me that at his work, they have a das (do a superuser) alias on their play linux

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Mike Burger
my friend told me that at his work, they have a das (do a superuser) alias on their play linux boxes. he says it works like this... das mv blah /usr/local 1) changes to su 2) executes "mv blah /usr/local" as su 3) exits from su can some show me how to write such an alias (

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread David Brett
download and install a lot of stuff too. this requires me to switch back and forth between superuser and my normal login. my friend told me that at his work, they have a das (do a superuser) alias on their play linux boxes. he says it works like this... das mv blah /usr/local 1) changes

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Luke C Gavel
l a lot of stuff too. this requires me to switch back and forth between superuser and my normal login. my friend told me that at his work, they have a das (do a superuser) alias on their play linux boxes. he says it works like this... das mv blah /usr/local 1) changes to su 2) executes "mv

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Mike Burger
ser and my normal login. my friend told me that at his work, they have a das (do a superuser) alias on their play linux boxes. he says it works like this... das mv blah /usr/local 1) changes to su 2) executes "mv blah /usr/local" as su 3) exits from su can some

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread rpjday
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mike Burger wrote: Point your browser at http://rpmfind.net, and do a search for sudo. It came up with 82 possible options...sudo-1.6.3-4-i386.rpm is the one you want. as another option, if you work in a graphical environment, just bring up a gnome-terminal or xterm,

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:10:00PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: Point your browser at http://rpmfind.net, and do a search for sudo. It came up with 82 possible options...sudo-1.6.3-4-i386.rpm is the one you want. Even easier: [hal@feenix hal]$ rpmfind sudo Installing sudo will require 291

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread David Brett
f the time on my linux machine, but i download and install a lot of stuff too. this requires me to switch back and forth between superuser and my normal login. my friend told me that at his work, they have a das (do a superuser) alias on their play linux boxes. he says it

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread David Brett
I was doing something very similiar, but I still needed sudo. david On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, rpjday wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mike Burger wrote: Point your browser at http://rpmfind.net, and do a search for sudo. It came up with 82 possible options...sudo-1.6.3-4-i386.rpm is the one you

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Michael Burger
Works fine if you have the rpmfind executable on your system. A little bit of a catch 22, eh? G On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:28:30 -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:10:00PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: Point your browser at http://rpmfind.net, and do a search for sudo. It came up

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Michael Burger
nd told me that at his work, they have a das (do a superuser) alias on their play linux boxes. he says it works like this... das mv blah /usr/local 1) changes to su 2) executes "mv blah /usr/local" as su 3) exits from su can some show me how to write su

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:42:00PM -0400, Michael Burger wrote: Works fine if you have the rpmfind executable on your system. A little bit of a catch 22, eh? G True, but it is included with std RH, so if not installed, now is a real good time. Very handy little tool IMHSHO. Of course, maybe

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Mike Burger
I dunno...I did a pretty standard server install on both my boxes, as well as my laptop, there's no such file as rpmfind on any of them (a 6.1 and 2 7.0 boxes). On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:42:00PM -0400, Michael Burger wrote: Works fine if you have the

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:11:51PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: I dunno...I did a pretty standard server install on both my boxes, as well as my laptop, there's no such file as rpmfind on any of them (a 6.1 and 2 7.0 boxes). I did a custom upgrade 6.2 - 7.0, and it is my log saved from the

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Bret Hughes
a superuser) alias on their play linux boxes. he says it works like this... das mv blah /usr/local 1) changes to su 2) executes "mv blah /usr/local" as su 3) exits from su can some show me how to write such an alias (or even shell script?)? thanks a bunch. install sudo. Should

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Michael H. Warfield
that at his work, they have a das (do a superuser) alias on their play linux boxes. he says it works like this... das mv blah /usr/local 1) changes to su 2) executes "mv blah /usr/local" as su 3) exits from su Look into sudo. It's either on the install disks or on the

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread christopher j bottaro
hey all, thanks for all the answers...=) i don't have that command (rpmfind)...=( On Thursday 21 December 2000 22:28, you wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:10:00PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: Point your browser at http://rpmfind.net, and do a search for sudo. It came up with 82 possible