thanks for replying. R P Herrold wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> I followed the setup instructions from >> http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/ > > ... the author is known to me ;) > >> Assuming that you are in /etc/sudoers!!!! >> And then asked for a password. >> Which password? My userid or root's? I tried both and after 3 tries got: > >> me is not in sudoers file. This incident will be reported. >> removing '/home/me/rpmbuild/BUILD/hipl--main--2.6/hipl-1.0.4' > > The end user account password is what sudo is looking for ... as > noted, it seems you had not configured /etc/sudoers to include you. > >> So I look at /etc/sudoers and do not understand what I am suppose to >> do there. > > A sample entry which permits a single user machine to do root > operations when needed, but to stay in its non-priv'd mode most of the > time looks like something as simple as: > > [herrold at new ~]$ sudo grep herrold /etc/sudoers > Password: [here, the end user 'herrold's password] > herrold ALL=(ALL) ALL > [herrold at new ~]$ > > ... We need root rights to read /etc/sudoers, or else it would have > not been needed except for teaching reasons. > >> A bit of help would be greatly appreciated! > > Hope this helps .. I wonder a bit at your description of untarring, > ./configure'ing, etc ... that is not part of rpm building from .spec > or SRPM. Here is what I was told to do: wget http://hipl.hiit.fi/hipl/hipl.tar.gz you can build on CentOS by executing: tar xvzf hipl.tar.gz cd hipl--main--2.6 ./autogen.sh ./configure make rpm ("make install" works too, but installs to /usr/local by default) Software requirements are listed here: http://infrahip.hiit.fi/hipl/manual/ch02.html