sudo can't find sudoers file

cowgod · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 34 Location: tucson, az

this is the fifth server i have configured with gentoo in the span of a month and i have done the exact same procedure on each of them. i am confused why sudo is having problems. here is the error i am getting when i try to run sudo as a regular user:

sudo: can't stat /var/tmp/portage/sudo-1.6.8_p9-r2/image//etc/sudoers: No such file or directory

the only thing i can think of that may have caused an issue is that i created a portage overlay for g-cpan.pl in /usr/local/portage, however there are no sudo packages or ebuilds in that directory, they are all in /usr/portage.

i unmerged sudo and deleted the sudo directory in /usr/portage/app-admin and then did an emerge sync, and then tried to emerge sudo again but i still get the same error. i do not know why it is looking in /var/tmp for the sudoers file.

any help is appreciated, thank you.

adaptr · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject:

cowgod · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 34 Location: tucson, az

i'm not sure what you mean by "tried" bugzilla... i searched bugzilla but did not find anything. if you mean did i submit the bug to bugzilla, no i didn't. i have another server that is running the same version of sudo and it does not have this problem.

your suggestion gave me an idea though... i tried copying the binary from one of the other servers to this one, and that did the trick. sudo works properly now.

this was strange indeed...