Service network restart

P Jones mail4xxxx at imap.cc
Tue Dec 21 03:33:39 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 00:22 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mo, den 20.12.2004 schrieb Maciek R. um 22:26:
> 
> > What must I do to get this to work and how do you add and remove s.th.
> > to the path anyway? (which commands)
> 
> > Maciek R. <m.mail at vp.pl>
> 
> Use "su -", not "su" to get a root _login_ shell.
> 
> Alexander

Alexander;

Would you explain the difference between "su -" and "su"? I have always
used "su" to get root, and it works, but I've seen documentation that
says, and as you suggest, to use "su -". I'm curious why.

Thanks,

-P




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