Thanks to Adrian for pointing to this site. http://toomuchdata.com/2012/06/25/how-to-install-python-2-7-3-on-centos-6-2/ I was able to get the virtual environment set up and install psycopg2 from there. Now things seem to be working well when I'm logged in as root.
But I need to be able to use the virtualenv as a non-root user, joshmoe. (And start/stop postgresql as this other user) The command for getting into the virtualenv is: source /root/Python-2.7.3/projectdir/bin/activate Understandably, when I run this command as joshmoe, I get a permission denied message: -bash: /root/Python-2.7.3/projectdir/bin/activate: Permission denied In an attempt to make this command available to joshmoe, I started with chmod and gave all rwx. Still gave me the same message. So I edited /etc/sudoer to include the following line: joshmoe ALL=NOPASSWD: /root/Python-2.7.3/projectdir/bin/activate Now from the joshmoe login, when I run: sudo source /root/Python-2.7.3/projectdir/bin/activate I get the following: sudo: source: command not found It seems pretty clear to me that I'm not using the sudoers file correctly to specify sourcing this file -- I seem to be giving access to that activate file successfully, but not to the built-in source function. Both of following lines are a no-go in the sudoers file-- syntax error joshmoe ALL=NOPASSWD: source joshmoe ALL=NOPASSWD: source /root/Python-2.7.3/projectdir/bin/activate I've found a good many examples of sudoer statements. But I can't figure out the syntax that will make this work. I'm hoping once I get this one, I'll be able to give access to statements like 'service postgresql status' and so forth. On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 09/27/2013 04:45 AM, Augori wrote: > > >> Do you have other ideas? >> >> > Re: my previous post. I was assuming you are not using Python 2.7 for > anything important at this point. That might be an erroneous assumption, in > which case truly cleaning house might not be the way to go. > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.kla...@gmail.com >
