--- Jay Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, burns wrote: > > > On January 14, 2002 09:13 pm, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > If you're running a linux box as root and you execute a root only > > > executable and it comes back with... > > > > > > error: this must be run in root mode... > > > > Are you in a root session? Or are you only SU? > > > > If the latter, try logging into an actual root session. > > Exactly. You're really only HALF-root if you just do an 'su' or an > 'su > root'. You need to use 'su - root' in order to attain all of root's > profile, priveledges, and permissions...
Funny, i've never had any such problems becoming root with a simple 'su'. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
