Why use a virtual machine? **RESOLVED**

[Steven Vollom]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Sunday 30 November 2008, Gene Heskett wrote:
>   
>> Screw 'em and the camel that rode in on them, I tried Ubuntu-8.04 LTS, got
>> tired of fighting with sudo every 30 seconds to get the stuff I wanted (KDE
>> & friends) installed and put an F9 respin on it, much friendlier.  Whatever
>> became of the sudo that was good for 10 minutes anyway?
>>     
>
> You can make it good forever by adding the line:
>
> Defaults        timestamp_timeout=-1
>
> to  /etc/sudoers
>
> (That's a   -1)
>
>   
I am still basically stupid, Bruce.  Do I type in:

steven at Studio25:~$ sudo /etc/sudoers Defaults timestamp_timeout=-l

I wish I wasn't so dense; you probably have given sufficient instruction 
before; with me it takes a bit of repetition and practice before it 
sinks in to my memory.

Thanks, friend,

Steven