Re: [orca-list] sysadmin help

[Jim Barbour <jbar barcore com>]

What do you get for output?  You can ignore my earlier message about
your path.  Sorry for the confusion.

Jim

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:39:31PM +0200, Milton wrote:
> Hello Herman,
>
> Indeed. Mine shows $ instead of %.
> But even then I got no access with orca after sudo synaptic.
> Milton
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Hermann" <meinelisten onlinehome de>
> To: "Milton" <milton tomaatnet nl>
> Cc: "Jim Barbour" <jbar barcore com>; <Orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] sysadmin help
>
>
> 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