thanks, i sort of see what you mean, this might explian why kdesu doesn't do it, though #su <password> #./somescript does work without the dash, unfortunately, it's not a reason that might explain why a cron job run as root (setup with webmin) that calls the script would fail, would it? i have wondered if the problem lies with calling one script - urpmi - from another, but since my knowledge of perl is slightly less than my knowledge of bash i.e. zero i couldn't possibly investigate this!
bascule p.s. is that 'defanged' thing some sort of unixy joke, or is quoting scripts in mails a genuine security risk? On Thursday 15 Nov 2001 12:05 am, you wrote: > Try su - -c 'command' Normal su (and kdesu I think) inherit the current > user environment, the dash tells it to spawn a new one based on root. > There are differences in the default path etc when running programs in > this way which can cause obscure failures. > > BillK > >
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