Sudo: Slow and strange problem.

adriel-tech

adriel-tech

I just did a fresh install of FreeBSD 8 on my server. I installed openeVPN, zsh, sudo and tmux. Anyways, I installed sudo, I edited the config file via

Code: 
visudo

I un-commented

Code: 
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

When I sudo a command, I am asked for the password right away. But the command being run
takes 1-2 minutes to activate. It is annoying, but not a huge problem.

The major problem is if I do something like:
Code: 
sudo vim /var/log/messages
to look over the logs and clean them up and save the file.
Once saved no more logs can be written to the file. I tried the same thing
with my samba logs and once I save it after doing a sudo, no logs will be written
to the file.

I know I can just use SU, I am just curious why this would be happening.


If it helps my sudo config in full is:
Code: 
# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
 %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
 
Why are you editing live log files? Anyway .. just restart the logging process (like syslogd) afterwards to have it reopen the logfile. Or stop editing live files that are in use by another process, of course. You're basically pulling the rug.
 
Sorry, I run:
Code: 
/usr/rc.d/syslogd stop

before I edit them, unless there is something else I should be stopping before I clean the logs?
 
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