How to fix broken sudo config in Ubuntu?

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Published on 2010-06-07T15:01:08Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 15:13 UTC
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Hi,

I made changes with sudo visudo on Ubuntu 10.04. I get error in shell:

sudo: unknown defaults entry `env_resets'

please help me Thanks

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