Re: make replace broken?

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:50:55 -0500 (CDT)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> 
> > > Here is an example:
> > > 
> > > => Becoming ``root'' to make su-replace (/usr/pkg/bin/sudo)
> > 
> > Is this possibly some side effect of sudo?
> > Does it work with
> > SU_CMD=${SU} root -c
> > ?
> 
> 
> That fails for me with:
> 
> ===> Replacing for gethost-0.10
> WARNING: experimental target - DATA LOSS MAY OCCUR.
> => Becoming ``root'' to make su-replace (/usr/bin/su)
> Password:
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.

I use it like that as unprivileged user all the time.
(but I have no root password set, sloppy I know.)
It doesn't work with the default SU_CMD though.