[DNG] su on Beowulf (was We need upgrade reports)

2020-01-04 Thread tempforever
One (minor) irritation that I noticed both on this and my recent VM upgrade, is root user no longer has /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin, /sbin in PATH Do you mean upon login, or su? If su, then you need to invoke su as su - instead of simply as su. > to fix su: > > cat /etc/default/su > ALWAY

Re: [DNG] su root missing sbin on beowulf

2018-08-22 Thread ael
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:24:38PM +1000, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote: > > I notice when I login to root with “su” the $PATH doesn’t contain any sbin > folders, only bin. If I login to root with “su -“ then the $PATH is as > expected. Perhaps this extract from util-linux NEWS is relevant:-

Re: [DNG] su root missing sbin on beowulf

2018-08-22 Thread wirelessduck
> On 22 Aug 2018, at 20:28, John Hughes wrote: > >> On 22/08/18 08:24, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote: >> I installed ascii onto a new machine with ascii-netinstall iso and >> immediately upgraded to beowulf. The machine is a headless VM and has no GUI >> installed. >> >> I notice when I login

Re: [DNG] su root missing sbin on beowulf

2018-08-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 08/21/2018 11:24 PM, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote: I installed ascii onto a new machine with ascii-netinstall iso and immediately upgraded to beowulf. The machine is a headless VM and has no GUI installed. I notice when I login to root with “su” the $PATH doesn’t contain any sbin folders, o

Re: [DNG] su root missing sbin on beowulf

2018-08-22 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 22.08.18 12:10, KatolaZ wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:24:38PM +1000, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote: > > I installed ascii onto a new machine with ascii-netinstall iso and > > immediately upgraded to beowulf. The machine is a headless VM and > > has no GUI installed. > > > > I notice when I

Re: [DNG] su root missing sbin on beowulf

2018-08-22 Thread Jaromil
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, KatolaZ wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:24:38PM +1000, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote: > > I installed ascii onto a new machine with ascii-netinstall iso and > > immediately upgraded to beowulf. The machine is a headless VM and > > has no GUI installed. I notice when I log

Re: [DNG] su root missing sbin on beowulf

2018-08-22 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:24:38PM +1000, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote: > I installed ascii onto a new machine with ascii-netinstall iso and > immediately upgraded to beowulf. The machine is a headless VM and has no GUI > installed. > > I notice when I login to root with “su” the $PATH doesn’t c

[DNG] su root missing sbin on beowulf

2018-08-21 Thread wirelessduck
I installed ascii onto a new machine with ascii-netinstall iso and immediately upgraded to beowulf. The machine is a headless VM and has no GUI installed. I notice when I login to root with “su” the $PATH doesn’t contain any sbin folders, only bin. If I login to root with “su -“ then the $PATH i

Re: [DNG] su

2015-08-30 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 30/08/2015 17:08, Emiliano Marini a écrit : I don't understand su, and don't want to read his manpage, let's reinvent it poorly I use su everyday. If you don't like it, don't use it. If you are afraid of using it by mistyping, alias it. Could we put an end to this thread?

[DNG] su

2015-08-30 Thread Emiliano Marini
I don't understand su, and don't want to read his manpage, let's reinvent it poorly: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/1022 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng