Sudo Command with installation

Hi,
I am trying to install a software called Fullprof suite. Upon downloading, I have to follow the directions listed here:
http://www.ill.eu/sites/fullprof/php/downloads.html
I'm supposed to use the sudo command in terminal, which may lead to data loss. I'm pretty new to this sort of thing, so I would like to confirm that the text I am entering is safe, and only allows installation of the program:
sudo ln -s /Applications/Darwin/openmotif-2.2.3-universal /usr/OpenMotif
I am running on MacBook (2008), 10.5.8.
Any help would be appreciated. I tried running this program on our pc and now that computer doesn't start....

1. Revokes the permissions the first command granted so that nothing else can take advantage of them.
2. Because it's making changes to system-level folders. This is the same reason why most of Apple's software updates require an administrator password.
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Both Macs have fresh installs of OS X, did I forget to install something? Is X11 needed? or Xcode?
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When I try to execute a sudo command I get the following message:
"sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0644, should be 0440
Segmentation fault"
What does it mean?
Thanks for all the help.

When I try to execute a sudo command I get the following message:
"sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0644, should be 0440
Segmentation fault"
What does it mean?
It means someone has incorrectly modified the /etc/sudoers file, and as a side effect its permissions were changed to an insecure form, so sudo refuses to use the file. It is also possible that the /etc/sudoers file syntax is also invalid, which might also cause the segmentation fault.
'visudo' should be used to edit the /etc/sudoers file, which would have properly preserved the permissions, as well as verified that the updated /etc/sudoers file contained valid syntax so that sudo would continue to work. See 'man visudo'.
You now have a problem, in that you can no longer use sudo to fix the permissions.
You should first try booting your installation DVD. Via the Menu, you can run Disk Utility and run Repair Permissions. Hopefully this will repair the /etc/sudoers file. You could try running Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility, however, if it wants to use sudo to elevate its privileges, that would fail, as a broken /etc/sudoers file is still a broken /etc/sudoers file.
If you have by any chance enabled the 'root' account, you could try logging in as root and fixing the /etc/sudoers file's permissions.
You should also run visudo, so that the file's syntax is valid.
I think you can use the Installation DVD to enable the root account. that might be another way to login as root.
If repair permissions does not work, then maybe you can put your Mac into firewire target mode, mount your Mac's disk on another Mac via firewire, and repair the /Volume/Macintosh HD/etc/sudoers permissions from the working Mac.
If that failes, the next step is booting your Mac in Single User mode. Search for "Single User Mode" in the forums, and you should find instructions on both booting, as well as how to make the root file system writable so you can change the permissions from single user mode.
And if that does not work, I think you are left with reinstalling the OS.
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I am getting the following error while trying to execute a sudo command:
ld.so.1: sudo: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/bin/sudo: symbol closefrom: referenced symbol not found
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the SUNWcsu package that contains the ld.so.1 library is version: 11.8.0,REV=2000.01.08.18.12
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http://www.sunfreeware.com/indexsparc10.html

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If a dialog box appears that asks for your password, ask yourself whether you're doing anything that requires it, such as logging in, using sudo, moving or copying items in some system-level folders, or installing software. Mistyping a command may delete files that should remain intact, or damaging the Mac OS X installation by moving files around or altering permissions on certain components.
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Is there any way that I could know that those problems are occuring>>> i'm referring to "moving files" and altering permissions on certain components?
and when you say altering permissions? what do you mean by that?
is there anyway that I can fix it? or buy a certain software for mac that would fix the system problems? like in windows there are Norton system work
I was wondering I copy and paste the said command to my terminal but it didn't work. Do you know what would happen to my system if I messed up with that command? >>>im referring to this command http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307354
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The --asroot option has been removed from makepkg, which you would know if you searched the forum before posting...
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I googled the error with no relevant results, then I searched the forum to make sure it wasn't solved with no relevant results returned for the search term "makepkg: invalid option '--asroot')". It's ironic that you accused me of not searching when you haven't bothered to search the error message yourself. If you had you would know the search does not return useful results until this post.
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with administrator
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The single quotes are no accident.
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Not used my G5 Powermac (late 2004) for ages. Only boots in with Installation disk, but colour dots on white screen and message comes up to reboot machine. Nothing happens.

Not used my G5 Powermac (late 2004) for about 2 years. Was going to set it up for the lads to do school work.
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Hello, when i type sudo it show bellow message
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when i type ls
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I did mean PATH in ALL CAPITALS. When working on the Unix side of Mac OS X, as weill all Unix systems upper and lower case do matter.
But from the error message, I can see that somewhere along the way, mongodb (a database package), and the modification of PATH was done incorrectly.
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Sudo Command in Bash Script

So I created a simple bash script to run on login.....
one of the commands is the following:
sudo "something something something"....
One thing I haven't learned in my years of Unix is how do you get a bash script to run a sudo command without having to enter a password? I know this is trival, but just a quick 'this is how you do it' would be cool.
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There's a few ways to do this. Here's two (pick the method you like):
Method 1: Using "askpass".
With this you always do sudo -A command. The -A argument tells sudo to execute a command that echos the password to stdout. That command is something you write. For this explaination let's call the command pw and stick it /usr/local/bin. So it's full pathname would be /usr/local/bin/pw.
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Use visudo to add the following line to the sudoers file:
Defaults:ALL askpass=/usr/local/bin/pw
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I hit "InstallMediaPath" blank parameter issue, if I look into "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Log\Detail.txt".
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We are installing Adobe Acrobat 7.0 via command line installation in our network. When the installation is completed the clients reboot and our software-delivery-server quits with an error ("Exit code 32 indicates possible error"). To install the Adobe Updates we have to renew the complete installation.
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Hi,
I'm a long time Mac user, but not a Terminal expert.
I've come upon a simple hack that enables me to run two instances of Skype simultaneously. This enables me to use it with two different user names.
The idea is to create another user on the computer and run the other Skype like this:
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In order to simplify this for daily use, I'd like to create a small applet which runs this terminal command.
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hmm... I'm afraid that didn't do the trick. It now opens the Terminal window and launches Skype with the message "another copy of Skype is already running".
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