I share a box with three other people and we are having a murderous time
getting the paths correct. Can anyone explain the secrets of setting up
paths?
The current problem is all of us have the path setup correctly under our
usernames. If we 'su - root' the paths are still correct. However, if we
'su root', no dash, then for two of us the paths are correct but for the
other, her path's are screwed up.
>>Do a comparison to find out what the actual path is you are loading
into.....for every occurance just type echo $PATH compare and see what the
difference is. Should be an easy fix to edit the ol' .bashrc in whatever
path is NOT being loaded the same as the others....also will depend on what
you mean by the path not being correct .... if you mean once she does an su
root she has no access to things she did prior .. something wierd is going
on (with out the dash you *should* keep your current working path .... with
the dash .. you assume the path of the user you switch to) so if switching
user with no dash ... the path will be the same as before you su'd.
Lonny Selinger
We are all using bash. I don't know
where to look to figure out why she is the only one having a problem doing
'su root' and having the correct paths loaded.
thanks for the help...
