gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x57c85100.hantslug.org.uk.22259': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Sun Jul 12 22:21:42 2009 BST
gpg: using DSA key 20ACB3BE515C238D
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:06:15PM +0100, Tim wrote:
> Yes I have done that and everything is up and running bar one small problem,
> which has re-ignited my distaste of SUDO. I have copied some files from CD to a
> directory which is owned by root (its a linux version of a windows games that
> requires some of the original windows data files). When I try to run the game
> from the cli, it tells me that it can't find sample.cat Well sample.cat is
> there but it is spelt SAMPLE.CAT so I am trying to rename SAMPLE.CAT to
> sample.cat (there are other files I will probably need to rename but I need to
> get past this one first). I tried
>
> $ sudo rename .CAT .cat *cat (per numerous suggestion on sites on the net)
>
> but I get
>
> syntax error at (eval 1) line 1, near "."
>
> What the hell does that means?
This isn't a sudo problem.
I suspect that you've fallen foul of the difference between the
"rename" command shipped by Debian/Ubuntu and the "rename" command
shipped by Red Hat/Fedora, and that you've found a manual that talks
about the latter. The two programs are utterly different in the way
that they work.
From the Debian rename(1) man page:
"
To translate uppercase names to lower, you'd use
rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
"
> ok so I will rename the files through the GUI,
> but I can't as I can't launch any GUI as root or find a way to become root
> inside the gui
That's not a failing of sudo -- you'd have the same problem if you
did all of the above as root.
Hugo.
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