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Piers Karsenbarg
Asked: 2011-01-01 05:58:03 +0800 CST

sudo: cd: command not found when trying to get to /var/log/apache2

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I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and am having issues getting to the log files in /var/log/apache2

I can cd to most other places (I haven't tried every single file, obviously) but when I try to get to the above directory, I get the error message sudo: cd: command not found

... I've just tried something else and I can't cd when used in conjunction with sudo. I can use sudo when doing things like apt-get but it seems I can't change directory when using sudo.

I haven't been on this server for a while but I know I used to be able to do this.

ubuntu apache-2.2

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    On most systems, cd isn't a program, it's a shell command, so you can't use sudo to run it. Try sudo -i to get an interactive shell then cd into that directory.

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  2. Supplemental to DerfK's answer;

    Before I discovered sudo -i, I'd use sudo ls /var/log/abcd to identify the files in such a directory, and then read the files more directly.

    Not the cleanest way,... but there's always more than one way to skin a cat..

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