Re: Runing cardctl from a normal account

[Simon Rowe <sjrowe@ewor.co.uk>]

Thanks very much Steve. The quotes worked fine thankyou! 

I plan to add the commands as aliases to my .bash_profile now so I can
turn on/off networking without removing the PC card.

alias netdown='su - root -c "cardctl eject"'
alias netup='su - root -c "cardctl insert"'

Simon

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On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Stephen Oxley wrote:

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> Hello Simon,
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> On Fri,  9 Mar 2001 10:17, Simon Rowe wrote:
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> > 	su - root -c cardctl eject
> 
> Try putting " marks around the cardctl eject command.  I have a feeling that 
> the su -c is passing the cardctl OK, but dropping the eject option.
> 
> Ie, your command would be:
> 
> 	su - root -c "cardctl eject"
> 
> > I have tried it specifying the socket number too -just in case!
> > Any suggestions, alternative methods (sudo I suppose??) would be great.
> 
> Sudo is a good one, as you don't need the root password to run the command.  
> Setting up the sudo config file can be a bit tricky, as it doesn't allow 
> wildcards in the commands.
> 
> > Thanks for you help
> > Simon
> 
> No problems,
> 
> Steve
> 
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