I just wrote a little script, that will echo a message to the user, if it doesn't have enough permission: $ if ! [ "$(env LC_MESSAGES=C ifconfig wlan0 down | grep -i denied)" == "" ]; then echo "no permission"; fi SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied $ sudo su [sudo] password for USER: # if ! [ "$(env LC_MESSAGES=C ifconfig wlan0 down | grep -i denied)" == "" ]; then echo "no permission"; fi # but it won't works why? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091025/b6249964/attachment-0004.html>