I think my first theory of a somehow corrupted "/etc/sudoers" is proven wrong. There might be a remote chance of some hidden control characters (check with "vi"'s list mode), but i doubt it.
It is time to generate some logs and analyse these. Add the following to your "/etc/sudo.conf" (depending on the sudo version you use this might differ):
where "/var/log/sudo_debug" is your sudo log file - change it to accomodate your installation. Probably there are already some logs there which you could analyse.
folks;
How can i give a group a sudo permission to execute only some command "like start/stop Apache", so every user in that group can sudo to use this as himself, i mean when he tries to sudo, he will be asked for a password (and make it so he must use his own NT password not a generic one) then... (6 Replies)
Hi! I'm very new to unix, so please keep that in mind with the level of language used if you choose to help :D Thanks!
When attempting to use sudo on and AIX machine with oslevel 5.1.0.0, I get the following error:
exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program sudo because of the following errors:... (1 Reply)
Hi Gurus,
I have small issue...
I used to pass the passwd for sudo commands like below,
gzcat ~/passwd.gz | sudo su - <villin> >> eof
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eof
And it was able to login into "villin" sudo account successfully. But now, I'm using the same in another script for the... (2 Replies)
I logged in through ssh, but can't re-login as root.
sudo login
Arch login: root
Password:
Login incorrect
Arch login:
But I am sure my password is right. Why?
But on local tty1, this works. (2 Replies)
I am writing a BASH script to update a webserver and then restart Apache. It looks basically like this:
#!/bin/bash
rsync /path/on/local/machine/ foo.com:path/on/remote/machine/
ssh foo.com sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reloadrsync and ssh don't prompt for a password, because I have DSA encryption... (9 Replies)
Hi admins,
I have installed sudo in aix 5.3 and configured sudoers file.Every command is working fine with sudo except cd .
If i give sudo cd /etc/security it returns nothing.There is no pwd change and no any error messages.
sudo -l command returns all executables including cd.
sudo ls... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
I running a unix command using sudo option inside shell script. Its working well. But in crontab the same command is not working and its throwing
"sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo". I do not have root permission to add or change settings for my userid. I can not even ask... (9 Replies)
Hi, Have a need to run the below command as a "karuser" from a java class which will is running as "root" user. When we are trying to run the below command from java code getting the below error.
Command:
sudo -u karuser -s /bin/bash /bank/karunix/bin/build_cycles.sh
Error:
sudo: sorry,... (8 Replies)
Dear All,
I wanted to execute sqlplus using another user instead of oracle user.
I have given user AA sudo permissions in such a way that it can execute all oracle related files.
when i try the below command from user AA ,it is not working.
sudo -u oracle sh -c sqlplus
Error 6... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have given access to user mwadmin in shudders file as :
mwadmin ALL:NOPASSWD:/www/* /usr/* /opt/*
However, not able to execute below command:
sudo mkdir -p /usr/test
password for mwadmin:
Sorry, user mwadmin is not allowed to execute '/bin/mkdir -p /usr/test' as root.
... (4 Replies)
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eventstat
EVENTSTAT(8) System Manager's Manual EVENTSTAT(8)NAME
eventstat - a tool to measure system events.
SYNOPSIS
eventstat [-rcsv_file][-nevent_count][delay [count]]
DESCRIPTION
eventstat is a program that dumps the current active system events.
OPTIONS
eventstat options are as follow:
-h show help
-n event_count
only display the first event_count number of top events.
-q run quietly, only really makes sense with -r option.
-r csv_file
output gathered data in a comma separated values file. This can be then imported and graphed using your favourite open source spread
sheet.
-t threshold
ignore samples where the event delta per second less than the given threshold
EXAMPLES
Dump events every second until stopped.
sudo eventstat
Dump the top 20 events every 60 seconds until stopped.
sudo eventstat -n 20 60
Dump events every 10 seconds just 5 times.
sudo eventstat 10 5
SEE ALSO powertop(8)AUTHOR
eventstat was written by Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
This manual page was written by Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>, for the Ubuntu project (but may be used by others).
June 13, 2012 EVENTSTAT(8)