Nvidia problems

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Apr 9 23:48:21 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 15:18 -0400, Dan wrote:
> Jeff Vian wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 04:05 -0400, Dan wrote:
> >   
> >> Andrew wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Jörn Rink wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> Am Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:07:44 -0600
> >>>> hat andrew <fedora at tolboe.org> (andrew) folgendes geschrieben:
> >>>>
> >>>>  
> >>>>         
snip
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> module-init-tools . It's in /sbin, so you need to be root (not sudo either).
> >> -Dan
> >>
> >>     
> > "/sbin/lsmod" works for me as a regular user.
> > You need the path but do not need to be root to run it. 
> >
> >   
> Oh, for me too. Did they change that in FC5? /sbin used to be root-read 
> only.

/sbin has NEVER been restricted to root only.

It just does not get put into the normal users path so things there are
not accessible for the untrained or non-adventurous. 




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