[chirp_users] Having troubles

[holmziep at netscape.net]

I take my cut n paste skill a little too far.  Though I've been a linux-only guy for 10 yrs. Tks again for your help.
 
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From: Chance Fulton <chance.fulton at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wed, Feb 26, 2020 7:10 pm
Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Having troubles

I just noticed that is what he was doing. $USER is a placeholder (variable if you will) for your username, not $yourusername.
Good catch.
-Chance

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 7:03 PM Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> adduser $USER dialout
>
> root at holmzie-All-Series:/home/holmzie# adduser $holmzie dialout
> adduser: The group `dialout' already exists.
>
> That's what I got.
>

Stop putting the $ in front of your username.

Jim KC9HI
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