David Hughes wrote: > you want to use sudo. sudo prompts you for your own password, and > logs your use for the sysadmin, which is the folks up at ubuntu. > > if you want to operate fully as root, use "sudo bash". > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Tom Poe <tom...@fngi.net > <mailto:tom...@fngi.net>> wrote: > > I want to run /usr/bin/updatedb on my newly installed Ubuntu 8.04. > How > do I do that? > Tom > t...@tom-desktop:~$ su > Password: > su: Authentication failure > t...@tom-desktop:~$ cd /usr/bin > t...@tom-desktop:/usr/bin$ updatedb > updatedb: can not open a temporary file for > `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db' > t...@tom-desktop:/usr/bin$ > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com > <mailto:Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > > Thanks, all. Worked as advertised. :) Tom
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