[Sysadmin] Painted into a corner again

Wed Jan 8 15:15:57 CST 2003

dean,

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> From: Dean Mah
>
> Not sure what you mean...  You should be able to sudo
> anywhere from your 'jeff' account.
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[jeff at weo jeff]$ cd ../evolt/public_html
[jeff at weo public_html]$ ls -l
total 228
-rwxr-xr-x    1 evolt    evolt        3261 May 31  2002
alphaboxcontroller.bak
-rw-r--r--    1 evolt    evolt        3515 Oct 30 10:48
alphaboxcontroller.cfm
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        11249 Jan 11  2002 bad.html
-rw-r--r--    1 evolt    evolt        4852 Jan 11  2002 CHANGELOG
-rw-r--r--    1 evolt    evolt        1853 Dec 28  2001 CREDITS
-rw-r--r--    1 evolt    evolt       10756 Oct 21  2001 debug.bak
-rw-r--r--    1 evolt    evolt       11563 Oct 30 10:48 debug.cfm
-rw-rw-r--    1 evolt    nobody     133040 Oct 30 10:45 error.html
drwxrwxr-x    2 nobody   evolt          36 Jan  8 15:24 errors
drwxr-xr-x   19 evolt    evolt        4096 Jan  3 14:36 evolt
-rw-r--r--    1 evolt    evolt        7130 Jan 11  2002 evolttest.sql
-rw-r--r--    1 evolt    evolt       18109 May 31  2001 gpl.txt
-rwxr-xr-x    1 evolt    evolt         849 May 31  2001 index.cfm
-rw-r--r--    1 evolt    evolt         915 Dec 12  2001 README.txt
[jeff at weo public_html]$ mkdir error
mkdir: cannot create directory `error': Permission denied
[jeff at weo public_html]$ sudo mkdir error
Password:
Sorry, user jeff is not allowed to execute '/bin/mkdir error' as root on
weo.

am i using improper syntax or something?

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> Regardless, I've created the directory and set the
> ownership.
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thanks a bunch.

can you take a peek and see why http://errors.evolt.org/ is calling a
template with the following source:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="1; URL=http://www.evolt.org">
</head>
<body>

evolt.org

</body>
</html>

thanks,

.jeff

http://evolt.org/
jeff at members.evolt.org
http://members.evolt.org/jeff/