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Smoot Carl-Mitchell
smoot at tic.com
Sun Jun 22 15:57:13 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:37 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> > Looks correct. Be sure to run this as root. You can do a:
> >
> > sudo su -
> >
> > to get a root shell and then do the above.
>
> Just a hint:
> There's no need to have sudo call the program 'su' to get a login
> shell for root. The following is shorter and simpler:
>
> sudo -i
You are correct. I keep forgetting about the -i option. Earlier
versions of sudo did not have the -i option. Old habits die hard. ;-)
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Smoot Carl-Mitchell
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