sudo command wonn't run app

chrisduck · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:24 am Post subject: sudo command wonn't run app

I installed wifi-radar on my gentoo system.
I can run the application as root without problem, but for some reason when I try to run wifi-radar through sudo ("sudo wifi-radar") it fails...

dgaffuri · Advocate Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 2078 Location: Italy

Probably your environment vars are not set (DISPLAY is a candidate). Look at man sudo for options regarding environment (I don't remember now and I'm not booted in linux).

dol-sen · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:41 pm Post subject:

Those type of errors are due to a permissions problem. A quick search for "could not open display" gives lots of results including this one that may be the solution for you.
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chrisduck · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 11:47 pm Post subject:

I can't edit that part of visudo without a syntax error, which seems strange because I'm only uncommenting that line which is already there.
Anyway thanks for steering me in the right direction

dol-sen · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 6:06 pm Post subject:

I just ran into the same problem and got the same syntax error.

Turns out that looking at it again, you also need to delete the space in front of the command not just the '#'.

It needs to look like: