By Brohemian
I have Ubuntu 14.04 on two droplets. One was the one click LAMP install the other I installed Apache2 manually.
With both droplets the directory for the log files are set as:
drwxr-x— 2 root adm
When I try:
‘sudo cd /var/log/apache2’
I get the error: ‘sudo: cd: command not found’
The only way of moving into that directory is to log in as root. Sudo doesn’t work.
However, I can do: ‘sudo less /var/log/apache2/access.log’ and read the output.
Why isn’t ‘cd’ working with sudo in this instance?
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The sudo command works only for executables and cd is a shell builtin.
You can use sudo -s to move to a root shell and execute cd or do sudo ls /var/log/apache2 and then view the file of your choice.
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