[sudo-users] visudo problem
Todd C. Miller
Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Thu Jul 14 16:29:07 EDT 2011
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:04:33 EDT, "LaComa, Lyn" wrote:
> root at nbaixlpd001a:/usr/local/sbin # . ./visudo
> ksh: 0403-057 Syntax error: `(' is not expected.
The problem is that you are trying to source the visudo binary like
a shell script due to the ". " before the command path. If you run
it as:
root at nbaixlpd001a:/usr/local/sbin # ./visudo
or with a will path:
root at nbaixlpd001a:/usr/local/sbin # /usr/local/sbin/visudo
it should work as you expect.
- todd
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