On Friday 25 December 2009 16:54:59 Armelius Cameron wrote:
> 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.
Sorry if I wasn't being very clear (I was in a hurry) :).
As Patrick explained, and far as I know, it has always been the case that
"su -" will read root's shell environment and overwrite any user shell
environment including alias and env. variables.
Is there any possibility that you had that alias in root's .bashrc before
the upgrade and simply forgot about that ? Or, it could be that command
for the root profile was "/bin/su" before ?
In any case, it seems that you got it to work.
I did, and I appreciate the time some of you have given to try to solve this
mystery for me - it's just that I *hate* mysteries :-) As for existing
aliases, I always have an alias for root's mail, but I can't think of anything
else more likely to affect this.
As you say, it's working, so no big deal. Just something that will nag away
in the back of my mind :-)
Anne
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