On 2/4/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I give up. I've been struggling with a couple of very, very > strange permissions problems for months. I just finished an emerge - > e system and emerge -e world hoping it would fix it. first problem: > trying to use sudo, but it keeps saying "can't open sudoers file, > permission denied". even if i'm root doing sudo it tells me that.
Try doing "strace sudo ..." as root. That should at least tell you what system call is returning -EPERM. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list