Re: [orca-list] sysadmin help

[Jim Barbour <jbar barcore com>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:37:05PM +0200, Hermann wrote:
> On 31.07.2008 at 14:17:09 "Milton" <milton tomaatnet nl> wrote:
>
> > Hello Jim,
> >
> > The result of the sudo command is:
> >  sudo -h | -K | -k | -L | -l | -V | -v
> > usage: sudo [-bEHPS] [-p prompt] [-u username|#uid] [VAR=value]
> >             {-i | -s | <command>}
> > usage: sudo -e [-S] [-p prompt] [-u username|#uid] file ...
> >
> > After the command "% sudo synaptic" the result is "cannot find command" . I 
> > tried to translate from Dutch.
>
> Try simply:
> sudo synaptic
> That % seems to me a missunderstanding: Some shells indicate by showing
> that "%" that one is logged in as user; the prompt looks like this:
> user host:~%
> When logged in as root you see:
> root host:~#
> Some shells replace the "%" by "$" when logged in as user.
> I hope this clarifies the matter.
> Hermann

Oh, I didn't understand that you were typing the %.  Herman is right,
% just indicates that you're typing into a shell.

Jim