Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3767 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 17:48 +0100, Per Kustemo wrote:
> On 2/9/06, Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 12:47 +0100, Per Kustemo wrote:
> > > What is the crrect way to install updates on already installed program.
> > > I updated the Azureus today and as a common user I have no right to
> > > update that program.
> > > The update function in the program works fine an downloads the update
> > > to the tmp dir but when it tries to update it fails, cause of my
> > > rights in the filesystem of course.
> > > My question is.
> > > Is there a way to like in windows to "run as" admin or in this case
> > > root on a single program?
> > > Or is there another easy way?
> > > I have fixed this logged in as root but still would like to know the
> > > correct way :)....sux
> >
> > Yes there is:
> >
> > sux program followed by the root password.
> 
> Is the sux program already installed and how do I use it.
> Tried to install it with apt-get install sux but it seems to be the
> wrong way cause I got this msg "Couldn't find package sux"
> /Per
> 
> 

sux <name of the program you want to run as root> (without <> of course)

you will need to supply root's password. To find out which package a
program is in try using pin.

pin <name of file you are looking for>  (without <> of course)

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998