[nos-bbs] tun0 and more Linux routing commands

[George [ham] VerDuin]

Ah -- the UNIX pedigree for Linux Bill.
Thanks for the "vm" explanation -- I get it now.


On 02/14/2011 06:38 PM, Bill V WA7NWP wrote:
>
> I've discovered that a portion of my difficulties was in trying to run
> JNOS as a normal user and launching the ifconfig command with su2.
Silent failure [as in "no error message"] perhaps not announcing lack of 
permission goes way back.  I wonder if the failure was announced in 
/var/log/messages [or syslog for some distros]?

> Running as root, which a bit scary, just works.
Running as normal user can be done, is being done today by John WB8RCR.  
It may not require more that a few ownership changes and a "sudo" setup 
to enable user mode operation.  The "visudo" command [for Fedora] edits 
the configuration file to enable your normal user access to a few 
selected commands like ifconfig.

Thanks again & cheers.
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