Question

I am using Ruby on Rails 3.0.9 and I am trying to run the following command in the Console (it is related to the railsready script) in order to update a fresh Linux system on my Virtual Private Server (VPS):

root@website:~# wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/joshfng/railsready/raw/master/railsready.sh && bash railsready.sh

It should update the system, anyway I get the following output from that script:

#################################
########## Rails Ready ##########
#################################

This script must be run as a normal user with sudo privileges

Inspecting the script source code I can see:

...

#now check if user is root
if [ $script_runner == "root" ] ; then
  echo -e "\nThis script must be run as a normal user with sudo privileges\n"
  exit 1
fi

...

The problem, I think, is related to the root@website:~#: I should run the above command as a “normal user”.

How can I solve the issue?

P.S.: I am on a Linode VPS running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as well.

Answer 1

You can solve the issue by running the command as a normal user, not root. root is the superuser and should only be used when necessary for system administration purposes.

This document may help you:

https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/user-management.html