Steve Doerr wrote:
> I'm confused about root's bash profile.
Let me give it a shot at unconfusing you.
> In vt1,
What *exactly* do you mean by vt1? To me it means that you are using
the first virtual terminal. What you get when you don't have a
graphical login manager such as xdm, kdm, gdm. O
I had a similar problem with switching to the root
user and not getting all of root's path variables
added to my environment. my instructor said to use
this command:
su - root
And it worked like a charm. Apparently it loads you
into a new shell exactly like you just logged in as
the user. All you
> Naitik Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-04 10:47]:
>
> One possibility might be the fact that when you su, I believe
> .bashrc gets executed, and .bash_profile does not, as it isn't a
> login shell. Whereas when you login (or alternatively do: su -c
> "bash --login" ) .bash_profile gets run. So
One possibility might be the fact that when you su, I believe .bashrc gets executed,
and .bash_profile does not, as it isn't a login shell. Whereas when you login (or
alternatively do: su -c "bash --login" ) .bash_profile gets run. So depending on the
paths each of these set, your path could pos
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 21:20, Steve Doerr wrote:
> I'm confused about root's bash profile. In vt1, the directories /sbin &
> /usr/local/sbin are excluded from the path. If I su to root within
> Gnome or KDE in a terminal they are there.
>
> I'm not sure why there isn't a common bash profile for
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