On 21:14 23 Jan 2002, John P Verel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I frequently su from my user account to root. According to the su info, | it starts a new interactive shell, leaving the environment unchanged. | | What I'd like to do is: | | su to root | pick up root's path | pick up user's history file | not change directory to ~/root, but keep the current directory | | Can I do all this? Doing the first two is easy, especially by just | invoking su as a login shell. But I can't figure how to do the last | two.
su root -c ". /etc/profile; . /root/.bash_profile; export HISTFILE=$HISTFILE; exec bash -i' Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Thousands of years ago the Egyptians worshipped cats as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. - David Wren-Hardin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
