From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27958 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gerben Wierda Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: some patches Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:31:58 +0200 Message-ID: <41EE205A-CCCD-4475-B23A-AC72742DD339@rna.nl> References: <44682C69.1000109@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147707146 17666 80.91.229.2 (15 May 2006 15:32:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:32:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon May 15 17:32:22 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fff3H-0006LC-Vl for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 May 2006 17:32:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A05A127B7; Mon, 15 May 2006 17:32:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08732-01-3; Mon, 15 May 2006 17:32:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B81127B1; Mon, 15 May 2006 17:32:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE3E8127B1 for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 17:32:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08732-01-2 for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 17:32:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id A93CE1279A for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 17:32:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ii2.demon.nl ([82.161.98.36]:15870 helo=mail.rna.nl) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1Fff3B-0007R7-Ex for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Mon, 15 May 2006 15:32:01 +0000 Original-Received: from [192.168.2.87] (hermione-a.rna.nl [192.168.2.87]) by mail.rna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140014B664C for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 17:32:01 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <44682C69.1000109@wxs.nl> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:27958 Archived-At: On 15 May 2006, at 09:23, Hans Hagen wrote: > (btw, is there a clever way to avoid this sudo stuff and become > real root?) This depends on what you want to do and on which system. On most unixes, you can say. You can in perl (and probably also ruby which I do not know) set all kinds of unixy things like real uid ($<) and effective uid ($>) as long as you already have the permissions. sudo -H -s to become root and also have root's home directory. G