-=> mark lewis wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-   
      
    ml>  On 2017 Jan 28 23:43:02, you wrote to me:   
      
    ml>> BM> It was do to the 'sudo' before the ./sbbsecho from the testing I   
    ml>> did.   
      
    ml>> yes but why? why did "sudo" do that?? that's the part to be learned   
    ml>> and understood ;)   
      
    BM> As I understand it... sudo allows anyone to become a superuser and   
    BM> being I was running under 'pi', it would not allow the variable to be   
    BM> set properly. Being /etc/profile already has it set for all users...   
    BM> that was creating an issue.  That's the way I see it... could be   
    BM> wrong... yes?? no???   
      
    ml> i'm trying to gently push you to the sudo docs where it is explained ;)   
      
   I understand... I'm starting to get the hang of it.... slowly... but I'm   
   dealing with it.  I've put together other bash files since then and they're all   
   working just fine.    
      
      
    ml>  -E, --preserve-env   
    ml> Indicates to the security policy that the user wishes to preserve their   
    ml> existing environment variables.  The security policy may return an   
    ml> error if the user does not have permission to preserve the environment.   
      
    ml>  -i, --login   
    ml> Run the shell specified by the target user's password database entry as   
    ml> a login shell.  This means that login-specific resource files such as   
    ml> .profile or .login will be read by the shell.  If a command is   
    ml> specified, it is passed to the shell for execution via the shell's -c   
    ml> option.  If no command is specified, an interactive shell is executed.   
    ml> sudo attempts to change to that user's home directory before running   
    ml> the shell.  The command is run with an environment similar to the one a   
    ml> user would receive at log in.  The Command Environment section in the   
    ml> sudoers(5) manual documents how the -i option affects the environment   
    ml> in which a command is run when the sudoers policy is in use.   
      
   I ahve some linux books on order that should be here in a couple of days.  Will   
   give me some material to read before I crash at night.. :)   
      
    ml> plus i posted some links the other day explaining the environment thing   
    ml> with sudo...   
      
   I saw and appreciate..   
      
      
    ml> but the main point is that you found out that you didn't even need to   
    ml> execute sudo to start with... not sure what made you think that you   
    ml> needed to do that but you learned something from it ;)   
      
   Yup... and for now, being I'm using ONLY sbbsecho as a hub, I don't even have   
   to use sudo for SBBS as I'm not running the bbs for the lower ports.... :)     
      
   I plan on getting hpt and htick running on it one day but that is in the future   
   when I get more familiar.... :)  Baby steps...    
      
      
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