That should be: Are you using "su" or "su -"?
The former will retain your "environment" while the later will give you root's "environment". I suspect you were using the former. Regards, Hugh From: Hugh E Cruickshank Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 22:31 > > Hi Jason: > > Are you using "su" or "su -"? > > The former will etain your "environment" while the later will give > you root's "environment". I suspect you were using the former. > > HTH > > Regrds, Hugh > > -- > Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Stephen Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 22:02 > > When I log onto my lunix box as a user and use su root to change > to the root > account, I can’t use commands like chkconfig, services, etc … to start and > stop services. Is there any way I can change the way I am doing > things so I > will be able to use these commands over a telnet session? > > - Jason > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
