permissions on an app

[Chris Mohler]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:23 PM, richard <richard.bown at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
> Suffering from the dreaded sudo :(
>
> I'm running an app without any hassle if I start a root console , ngo
> to the directory its in and type "python -O dingdong.py"
> and it works

I've not run into this - maybe you need to try 'gksudo <program>'
instead of sudo?

I think you should use "sudo -i" to become root.  This is a good read:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

Chris