[sudo-users] (no subject)

[Todd C. Miller]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:41:17 EDT, David Flatley wrote:

> AIX 6.1 TL7 server, compiled Sudo 1.8.4p2, copied a sudoers file from
> an operational system to this servers.
> Now when I run visudo on the server and try to save the edit (:wq!) I get
> syntax errors on the first three commented log lines (ex: Defaults
> log_output)
> Works with no problems on a system with the same AIX image.

Are you sure that you don't have an older sudo installed, such as
the sudo 1.6.9 from the AIX Toolbox?  That version installs links
in /usr/bin and so may be found before the newer sudo you installed
(which defaults to /usr/local/bin).

 - todd