I'm coming from a Debian background and I used to issue whenever I made any changes to the sudoer file. But in Slackware, how do I do that ? I just add a user into the sudoer file but I guess I need a restart of the sudo daemon cause I got a 'command not found' after I tried running some root command. (I put 'ALL' privilege for that user) I have spent a lengthy time looking through LQ but could hardly find any guidance, and also after googling for the whole night

And BTW, in Slackware, if I'm not be able to find anything in /etc/rc.d/ that could let me to restart some service or server, where else do I find them or do I need to create one or they will be created during the installation ?

Many thanks for any helping hand, as I'm trying to learn Slackware now.

There is no "sudo daemon". The in debian does the same as You could look into the script by yourself.

I'm not a sudo user but AFAIK there are no scripts to start/stop sudo in Slackware, thus I guess you'll have to make one yourself if you need it.

My understanding is that sudo is not so much used by most Slackers. May be they prefer to add relevant users in "powerful" groups like e.g. "wheel", as I do.

About the /etc/rc.d directory, it's basically populated at install time, but some scripts are added depending on which packages you install. This is the case e.g. for networks-scripts, MySQL and Apache.

Side note: if you want to learn Slackware, looking at the stuff in /etc and especially in /etc/rc.d helps a lot. The scripts there are generally well documented.

Tip : to know wich package include a given script, or any other file coming from the "official" distribution, you can use the packages and files browser.

That is because the /sbin directory is not on the user's PATH.

In ~/.bash_profile or other suitable location, add:

The user will need to logout and back in for that to have effect.