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[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 20 October 2014 11:16:36 Karl Auer did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 10:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > With or without the sudo in front of it, it should return something
> > like this:
> > module-init-tools 3.11.1
> 
> It doesn't though. Here it is on 14.04-1:
> 
> kauer at karl:~$ sudo /sbin/depmod --version
> [sudo] password for kauer:
> kmod version 15
> kauer at karl:~$ /sbin/depmod --version
> kmod version 15
> kauer at karl:~$ ls -la /sbin/depmod
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 20 15:14 /sbin/depmod -> /bin/kmod
> kauer at karl:~$ ls -la /bin/kmod
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 154616 Apr 11  2014 /bin/kmod
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
> PS: The cascade of permissions errors happens if you run depmod without
> root privileges.

Thanks Karl.  At least I wasn't a patient in the asylum.  But with stuff 
like that shuffled into the mix, I think its up to someone using that same 
release to help this one sort his basket of rattlesnakes.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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