On Friday 25 December 2009 13:05:49 Patrick Boutilier wrote:
On 12/25/2009 07:35 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
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>> If you get a user console, then do "su" to get the root console, then
it
>> should work. If you do "su -", I don't think it'd work as
"su -" change
>> the environment to use root's.
>
> You've lost me. Surely to do updates I *do* want to be root, in root's
> environment?
environment as in environment variables. Check the differences from the
output of the set command for instance when switching to root using
su
and
su -
OK,I understand what you are saying, but it still doesn't explain why it
worked in F11, but not in F12. I'm trying to understand what has changed.
Anne
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