Re: username is not in sudoers folder

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 06/12/2013 01:54 PM, John Austin wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 21:22 -0400, Doug wrote:
>> On 06/11/2013 09:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>> On 06/11/2013 05:29 PM, Tim wrote:
>>
>>> Agreed.  However, it can be argued that if you know enough to do that,
>>> you should also know enough to be careful with rm.  As root, unless I'm
>>> deleting exactly one file, I use ls first to see exactly what I'm going
>>> to delete.  It's a form of "measure twice, cut once" that's prevented at
>>> least one disaster over the years.  (N.B.: once you've examined the
>>> results of ls, the safest way to use rm is to use the up arrow to get
>>> back the preceding command line, then edit it.  That's probably the best
>>> way to be sure that what you delete is what you listed.)
>>
>> I find that when you are going to perform some kind of action on a file,
>> and you have found it using ls -la, highlight the file and ctrl-shift-c.
>> Then whetever your command is, command ctrl-shift-v.
>>
>> That's a better option than command filename-without-last-part* because 
>> there may be two or more identical first part filenames, but different
>> extensions. The most obvious is filename and filename.bak. Another 
>> common example is a filename with two or more version numbers in the 
>> extensions.
>>
>> --doug
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Blessed are the peacemakers..for they shall be shot at from both sides. 
>> --A.M.Greeley
> 
> Tip from this list I think
> 
> If using "su -" regularly
> add this to /root/.bashrc to obtain the root prompt in red
> 
> PS1="\[\033[1;31m\][\u@\h:\w]$\[\033[0m\] "
> 
> John
> 
That is a good tip ...but probably not for the colour-blind ;-)

Thanks.

-- 
Regards,

Rejy M Cyriac (rmc)
-- 
users mailing list
users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org




[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [EPEL Devel]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux