[mythtv-users] Carbon Footprint

[Daryl McDonald]

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/04/2013 01:13 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> I am following, all the way. I removed from the README ; pasted your
>>> command into the terminal, used ctrl+x to which it asked if I wanted to
>>> save ; to which I typed Y ; and now I have this screen:
>>>    GNU nano 2.2.6         File: /etc/sudoers.d/mythtv.tmp
>>>   Modified
>>>
>>> %mythtv ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown, /usr/bin/setwakeup.sh
>>>
>>
>> ...
>>
>>  File Name to Write: /etc/sudoers.d/mythtv.tmp
>>>
>>> ^G Get Help         M-D DOS Format      M-A Append          M-B Backup
>>> File
>>> ^C Cancel           M-M Mac Format      M-P Prepend
>>>
>>> and I have no idea where to go from here
>>>
>>
>> When that editor presents you with a file, it automatically appends
>> the ".tmp" portion.
>>
>
> Actually, I think visudo gives it that name for editing purposes, then it
> does some syntax sanity checking before moving it back to the actual target
> file. I believe that's the point of using visudo instead of just vi--it's
> specifically designed for editing sudoer syntax files and tries to keep you
> from locking yourself out of sudo by bad syntax. I bet if you just saved it
> as the filename presented (with the .tmp extension), it would then do the
> right thing.
>
> Karl
>
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OK, but at this point it is without it's ".tmp" distinction and has a ".3"
tag instead. How do I or should I change it? Or should I have let it
overwrite the "mythtv" file newly created in sudoers.d? And again how?
sorry to be such a newbie. Terminal output in previous post  (and again
below) shows the "mythtv" file, if I'm reading correctly, with nothing
written in it, right?

daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers.d/mythtv
daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$

Daryl
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