Compiling 2.6.9-1.724 kernel update

Gordon Marx gcmarx at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 22:46:04 EST 2005


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:31:59 -0500, Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote:
> If you use the -, $HOME gets reset to /root (or whatever root's home
> dir is).  If you don't use '-', $HOME remains set to the home dir of
> the user who ran su.

Nah, on my box the difference is that su - == su then cd. I dunno if
distro has anything to do with it, but if so, I run Gentoo. (even if
it doesn't, I still run Gentoo...oh hell, you know what I mean anyway)

-- 
Gordon Marx
gcmarx at alumni.virginia.edu



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