[Xastir] Shapelib & Cygwin

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Thu Jun 2 11:00:14 EDT 2005


On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:

> And a follow-up to this.  'man sudo' to learn how to make the sudo
> command work allowing you to do root tasks without being in the root
> account.  Useful for the administrator, makes it less likely you'll be
> wondering where all your disk contents went...

Roger on that!  Also a script or two in the Xastir distribution
depend on having sudo set up properly.  Some of the install
instructions also make use of it.  Sudo is a very valuable tool in
the Unix world that I wish I had started using years earlier.

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