dapper sudo

[Alexander Skwar]

ubuntu at rio.vg schrieb:
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> boricua wrote:
>>> how come dapper does not allow me to do this
>>>
>>>  sudo cat /dev/null >  /var/log/apache2/error.log
>> 
>> This doesn't have anything to do with dapper. What makes
>> you think so? Does the above work at a different distribution?
>> 
> 
> Because Ubuntu insists on "use sudo for everything", "never log in as
> root", "root doesn't even have a password to let you log in as root".

Well, yes, that might be bad, as it might to be too careless with
sudo.

> Most other distro's don't have this policy.  Someone coming from another
> distro or another flavor of Unix is used to using the standard su.
> After becoming root, the above command would work, minus the superfluous
> sudo.

Okay, but that's not what the OP wrote. He wrote: "how come dapper does
not allow me to do this" and then showed a command. It's *NOT* that
dapper doesn't allow OP to do "this". Every other distribution would
OP also not allow to do "this". But OP pointed at Dapper. And I would
like to know *why*.

Alexander Skwar
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