Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Sudo Issues

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 13:08 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> This one I'm familiar with. The current default configuration of sudo purposely
> wipes out the existing environment before switching to root. You can disable
> this behavior by commenting out the "Defaults	env_reset" line in /etc/sudoers.
> The following command in your fsscript should take care of that:
>
> sed -e 's:^\(Defaults.\+env_reset\)$:# The following line is completely fscking
> stupid\n# \1:' /etc/sudoers

See, I prefer this one:

sed -i -e '/#Defaults:%wheel/ s/#//' /etc/sudoers

> Alternatively, 'export DISPLAY=:0.0' after sudo'ing and before running the app
> will "solve" the problem.

Try using: sudo env DISPLAY=:0.0 $programname

(by the way, this is what the installer CD does to start gli)

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
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Gentoo Linux