Nvidia problems

wld volodimir.rudenko at gmail.com
Mon Apr 10 00:05:09 UTC 2006


On 4/10/06, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 15:18 -0400, Dan wrote:
> > Jeff Vian wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 04:05 -0400, Dan wrote:
> > >
> > >> Andrew wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Jörn Rink wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Am Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:07:44 -0600
> > >>>> hat andrew <fedora at tolboe.org> (andrew) folgendes geschrieben:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> snip
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >> module-init-tools . It's in /sbin, so you need to be root (not sudo either).
> > >> -Dan
> > >>
> > >>
> > > "/sbin/lsmod" works for me as a regular user.
> > > You need the path but do not need to be root to run it.
> > >
> > >
> > Oh, for me too. Did they change that in FC5? /sbin used to be root-read
> > only.
>
> /sbin has NEVER been restricted to root only.
>
> It just does not get put into the normal users path so things there are
> not accessible for the untrained or non-adventurous.
>

But not all programs in /sbin, /usr/sbin work for "mortal" users -
try eg. /sbin/insmod

V.Rudenko
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