sudo enlightenment...

[John Schmitt]

I had time yesterday to look at my sudo problem again, and my problem
was related to a couple of things.  This is a summary of what I learned.

Thanks to Mark Mitchell and to `eichin at metacarta dot com` for
explaining the execv thing.  

One of my problems was completely unrelated to Python or QMTest.  I was
not aware that sudo does not propagate LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  (If you're
interested, googling for 'sudo LD_LIBRARY_PATH' is the way to
enlightenment on that topic.)  

After that I learned that os.exec* require that the 'arguments'
parameter contains a meaningful argv[0] equivalent.  For more info, see
the following recipes:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/1560744
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/1560804
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/python-list/758306

John

PS: On a completely different topic, I started getting spam shortly
after I started posting here.  Yet, I don't recall seeing any posters
who spam-garble  their email address in this list.  Is everyone else
just dealing with it?  Suggestions?