On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:37:52 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: [....] > Add this to /etc/sudoers (using visudo) Aaarrghghgh. All I know about vi is how to spell it, and I'm not always too sure of that. Nor does the man page for visudo look any friendlier. It let me open it with nano -w; but sure enough, there it stands, bold as brass, big as life, and twice as ornery : "## This file must be edited with the 'visudo' command." Methinks I am undone. > username ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/service privoxy restart > > Substitute the name of the user that you want to give this permission to > for "username" in the above line. > > Now he/she can simply type "/sbin/service privoxy restart" at a > commandline (or you can even hang it on an icon) and restart privoxy. I did try : [root@Hbsk2 etc]# nano -w sudoers [root@Hbsk2 etc]# and added the line onto the bottom; but then I got : [tslg@Hbsk2 ~]$ /sbin/service privoxy restart Can't find /usr/sbin/privoxy, exit. [tslg@Hbsk2 ~]$ I'm a little surprised that Fedora added /usr in there; she can do /sbin/ifconfig perfectly well ... Learning vi is one of the things that's been daunting me, lo!, these dozen years or more .... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
