[mythtv-users] Carbon Footprint

[Michael]

On 08/29/2013 08:27 AM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Michael <mythtv at blandford.net 
> <mailto:mythtv at blandford.net>> wrote:
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>     On 08/29/2013 07:59 AM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
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>         Of the three commands the first one gets no complaint, with
>         the second attempt I did add the "sudo" preface and still I'm
>         denied:
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>         daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ SECS=`date -u --date "2013-08-29
>         10:50:00" +%s`
>         daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo echo 0 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
>         bash: /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm: Permission denied
>         daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo echo $SECS >
>         /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
>         bash: /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm: Permission denied
>
>         See! I remain open to suggestions.
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>     This is because the echo is running as root, but the redirect is
>     not, hence the permission denied.  If you want to use sudo you
>     would need to do something like:
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>     sudo sh -c 'echo 0 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm'
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>     Or just become root and run the command.
>
>     Michael
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> My son warned me about becoming root, I am still quite a newbie, and 
> it shows, below is what happened when I tried the first option:
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>  daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ SECS=`date -u --date "2013-08-29 11:45:00" +%s`
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo sh -c echo 0 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
> bash: /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm: Permission denied
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo sh -c echo $SECS > 
> /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
> bash: /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm: Permission denied
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
>
> I'm still looking at bricks, this shouldn't be that complicated, 
> should it?
>
> Daryl
>
>

You seem to be missing the ' marks before the echo and at the end of the 
line.

Michael

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