On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:03, Tim Wunder wrote: > My installation of RedHat 7.0 requires 'su -' to get root's path.
> Every Caldera distro I've used (2.3, 2.4, 3.1) didn't require that, It's annoying. The technical difference is that the existing environment is retained (not another shell) without the -. Mere Mortals under Redhat don't automatically have access to /sbin, it's not in the path. You can change this behaviour simply by editing (dot)bashrc in your $home directory and set the /sbin pathway. Then you get Caldera (tm) su. yep, it's annoying and can be changed in the (dot)basrc to reflect the /sbin paths. (that's the difference) > I haven't seen where including 'root' in the su command is required, it aint. 'root' is implied, OR, you can explicitly state it. Both mean same. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
