ahh, cool! I also messed around and found that the '--rcfile' option worked.
thanks for the help! -lev On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > You can use the the "-" option, as in "su -", to get a similar effect. > This causes the your new session to use through the new user's startup > files (.bash_profile, etc). This will give you any environment settings > (including PATH), as well as aliases, that they would normally have set. > > If what you're wanting is to inherit only the PATH, then I'm not aware > of a similar option... >