sudo and privoxy

[Rick Stevens]

Beartooth wrote:
> 	My wife's machine is on a different floor. Nine times out of ten, 
> when she hollers for help, it's a browser that won't connect; and nine 
> out of ten of those times, it's because privoxy has somehow gotten 
> stopped. (The other times, I usually have to reboot the router a/o the 
> modem.)
> 
> 	I tried adding her to the privoxy group, using Fedora's "Users 
> and Groups" app. But I still get : 
> 
> [btth at Hbsk2 ~]$ su - tslg
> Password: 
> [tslg at Hbsk2 ~]$ service privoxy restart
> Can't find /usr/sbin/privoxy, exit.

Is there a reason you're becoming tslg and trying to restart privoxy?
You should be root to restart privoxy, so as user btth:

	$ su -
	(enter root password)
	# service privoxy restart
	# exit
	$

should do it.  Ideally, you should use "sudo service privoxy restart",
but your username has to be in /etc/sudoers (see below).

> [tslg at Hbsk2 ~]$ sudo service privoxy restart
> [sudo] password for tslg: 
> tslg is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
> [tslg at Hbsk2 ~]$ 
> 
> 	What am I doing wrong??

Whatever user is trying to invoke sudo MUST be in the /etc/sudoers file.
There's another reply to this thread that describes how to put that in
(by using visudo).
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