On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:53:10AM +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Yeah, I got annoyed because of this too. Anyway it's not a big problem. > What happens when you 'su' is that your env.vars. are changed to root's. > Thus, apps don't know where the user's X session is. What you can do is > use the -p flag for su. 'su -p' will preserve the user's env.vars. for > the invoked su session (or login for 'su -'). Now you can run X apps as > root.
Yes, but not if you need some of root's other environment - like PATH etc. I had trouble when I tried running that X-based apt tool that I can't remember the name of - it couldn't find anything :-( Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
