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   From: Hadron    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: starting a console application on first login   
   Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:55:29 +0100   
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   Niklaus Kuehnis  writes:   
      
   > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Hadron wrote:   
   >   
   >> Niklaus Kuehnis  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> Great, that works! Although I decided to do it with chmod instead of   
   >>> rm. Thanks!   
   >>>   
   >> you mean you stop it being executable? Doesnt that result in a "no   
   >> command found" or do you check the permissions before tryint to execute   
   >> it from the bashrc?   
   >   
   > Right, I'm still looking for a way to check for permissions. -    
   > Actually, both ways don't work (without checking) because I don't want   
   > to allow sudo for apt-get as such but only for apt-get --simulate   
   > etc. nor do I want to allow sudo for a skript that is in home   
   > directory and can be edited with user rights. That's why the scripts   
   > are in /usr/sbin. In both cases, with the file non-executable or   
   > non-existing, sudo asks for a password even though the script is set   
   > to NOPASSWD in sudoers.   
   >   
   > So the solution (i guess) is to leave the file and permissions alone   
   > and only change the content of the file. .bash_profile executes the   
   > apt script and empties it and cron fills it up again. Probably not the   
   > most elegant way of doing it but it works.   
   >   
   > Nik   
      
   I'm not sure I follow you. Are you sure you are not overly complicating   
   the issue? What was wrong again with my solution (ignoring whether it   
   was the best/worst solution). What is the problem with using sudo in the   
   sctip file I suggested? It will prompt for pwd or you can set the s bit.   
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