[CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

[Akemi Yagi]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:05:48PM -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> a) In section 2.1 it is said: "[user at host]# yum install rpm-build". To
>> >> 'yum install' something you need to be superuser (as confirmed by '#'
>> >> prompt before the command). Shouldn't the example read:
>> >> "[root at host]# yum install rpm-build"?
>> >
>> > Yes, this should be root@ instead of user at .
>>
>> Or, wouldn't this be better?
>>
>> [user at host]# sudo yum install rpm-build
>
> One problem with sudo in RH based systems is that it doesn't have root's
> $PATH by default.  On my own pages, I have a page explaining this, and
> when I use sudo in a tutorial, I direct the reader who isn't clear on it
> to view that page.  (I usually use the phrase, as root or with root
> privilege.)
>
> While $PATH doesn't matter for this command, it can with others.
> If there's already a page explaining sudo on the wiki (too lazy to look
> right now) then a link to it would be sufficient, I think.

For someone lazy:

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BecomingRoot#head-5a98c43bd135904d720095ff461d52aa7b51412d

Akemi