On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 12:42, Adams, Gavin wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Please explain, what do you mean by "does not work". It looks like a > path > > problem. Instead of using "su" use "su -". > > > > "su" does not initialize the environment for the user you are "su"ing > as, > > but "su -" will. /sbin and /usr/sbin a special path's that are only in > > root's environment. > > Another thing I'm doing while soak testing an application (pre > /etc/init.d startup script) is to run 'screen' as an unpriviledged user, > then 'su -' to root (or even better, 'sudo su -') followed by starting > the application.
"sudo su -" is kind of a stange thing to do. You would probably be better of doing "sudo bash" as it also will give you a bash prompt with root login. -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
