New to Linux

Timothy M. Lyons lyons at digitalvoodoo.org
Wed Oct 1 12:33:41 EDT 2003


Alaric,

Are you using 'su' or 'su -'?

'su -' makes the shell a login shell and provides all the necessary
environment modifications (path/custom variables) available to you.

Without the hyphen, you maintain the current user environment.

--Tim


Alaric said:
> at it, and it told me "file not found" this was done as a SU. I'm feeling
>




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