[IMC-Tech] Re: [CU-Wireless-Staff] mailman links are all broken:

[dan blah]

On 11/5/06, Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:22:38AM -0600, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> > I suspect that someone must have chmod-ed the wrong file somewhere and that
> > is the root cause of the problem.  Is there a log file somewhere of the
> > changes being made on our central servers?  If not, is there a way to
> > maintain one?  I feel like we've seen a number of small mistakes that would
> > have been caught if we had more eyes on things as they're being done.  Call
> > me crazy, but maybe a rooters e-mail list or something?  Just a thought --
> > meanwhile, I'm thinking that checking the permissions on the relevant
> > directories might identify the problem.
> >
> > --Sascha
>
> Do people often use "sudo" to make small changes on these machines?
> I really like doing it that way on the *x machines that I administer,
> as each sudo-done command gets logged, including name of invoking user.
> If you need to do a lot of stuff as root, it's less helpful
> ("sudo bash" just logs the one "bash" invocation, so doesn't log any
> more than "su" would), but lots of changes are small enough that
> the logs are useful.
>
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ya we only use sudo.  i dont know that anyone actually knows the root pwd :).

-- 
Daniel