Compiling kernel with 'make rpm'

Keith G. Robertson-Turner redhat-forums at genesis-x.nildram.co.uk
Sat Dec 13 22:02:11 UTC 2003


On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 06:22:01 -0800, Scott Talbot wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 06:06, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> 
>> It's probably in
>> 
>> /sbin/mkinitrd
>> 
>> Which isn't in non-root's paths by default, even when you su root.
> 
> it is when you 'su -' root. the dash causes the su'd accounts path to
> be copied

Yup, just pointing out a bash gotcha.

The other classic, is noobs trying to export a child shell environment
back to the parent. I remember that one had me puzzled for ages.





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