Re: tramp (2.4.3.27.1 nil/nil); /sudo doesn't work

[Giovanni Ruggiero]

mmh... yes, it works.

There must be something in my init that messes things up.

Sorry for the waste of time.

Thank you

Giovanni

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 7:09 PM Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:

Giovanni Ruggiero <giovanni.ruggiero@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Giovanni,

> They are just the prefix I've tried, after those I've added the
> semicolon and the path.
> To be more precise, to open the alternatives.log file, I've tried:
>
> /sudo:root@localhost:/var/log/alternatives.log
> /sudo:localhost:/var/log/alternatives.log
> /sudo:<hostname>:/var/log/alternatives.log
> /sudo:root@<hostname>:/var/log/alternatives.log
> /sudo:127.0.0.1:/var/log/alternatives.log
> /sudo:root@127.0.0.1:/var/log/alternatives.log
> //sudo::/var/log/alternatives.log
>
> and none of them works

Please start "emacs -Q" and see, whether it works.

> Thank you

Best regards, Michael.