Don't know where to start

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Mar 16 08:39:37 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 20:59 -0400,  wrote:
>> No you don't, just "su -" instead of "su", and you'll get the root
>> environment.

Bruce Hyatt:
> Wow, THAT's going to save me a lot of time. Thanks.
> 
> I wonder why, during 6 or 7 years of messing with Linux, I never came
> across that before.

I can guess at a couple of reasons:  You used a distro that
had /usr/sbin and /sbin already in the path.  You'd used commands that
were already in the path, if not in the above ones.

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