Re: HELP! can't become root

[tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 06 October 2007 11:25, Thilo Six wrote:
> tom arnall wrote the following on 06.10.2007 20:13
>
> <<-snip->>
>
> > Indeed. From now on, I am not going to work as root without first making
> > an entry in my system log as to what I'm going to do.
>
> sudo will do that for you without extra modifications from you.
> *But* sudo will only make syslog entries *after* the command is send.
>
> > All of the problems I've
> > created have come from impatience. Perhaps this practice will help.
> >


whenever i make more than a trivial change on my system i make an entry in my 
own private log, which i call a system log. now i'm going to enter at least 
an outline of the work >before i do the work.