[K12OSN] can't launch 'sudo /usr/sbin/fl_teachertool' via desktop icon

[Petre Scheie]

I don't think it's necessary, either.  I made numerous changes and 
tweaks late last night (IOW, I was tired and groggy), including changes 
to the sudoers file--I think I had had some mistakes in there because 
when I trimmed it back, some things started working.  This morning I 
changed the group to 'teachers', of which my ID is a member, on 
fl_teachertool, tried my icon, and no joy.  Then discovered my icon was 
calling 'sudo xclock' as part of an earlier debugging effort.  Changed 
it to call 'sudo /usr/sbin/fl_teachertool' and it worked!  Then I 
changed the group back to root, as it originally was, and it still 
works.  So, I'm not sure why it wasn't working for me originally and I 
don't know exactly what I did to fix it.  I do know that compiling my 
own vncreflector, as mentioned in another thread, was key to getting 
Broadcast to work.  But I don't think that has anything to do with why I 
could not get fl_teachertool to launch via an icon.

Petre

Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> On 2/20/07, Nadav Kavalerchik <nadavkav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> i've had the same issue,
>> try setting Group or Others execute permission bit on the file
>> /usr/sbin/fl_teachertool
>> ( i think that should do it )
> 
> This is odd, why should allowing others or group execute bit matter if
> it's being run as root. My makefile sets the permissions to 754. If by
> using sudo it's being run as root there should be no problem.
> Sometimes I forget to put sudo in front of the fl_teachertool command.
>