On Wednesday 23 December 2009 20:57:50 Patrick Boutilier wrote: > >> I defined: > >> > >> alias yu="sudo yum --skip-broken update" > >> > >> the only differences being that I put the flag first, then the argument, > >> and I used quotation marks, not apostrophes. I know there is a > >> difference in bash between ' and ", but mine really DOES work (on both > >> of my computers, for both me and root on each). > >> > >> Maybe try? > > > > I tried this, but 'which yus' still returns the old one. Do I need > > 'newaliases' or something? > > Nope, newaliases is for sendmail. :-) > Thought so, that's why I said 'or something' :-) > Does it still not work if you run the alias command from a shell prompt > and then try yus ? > > > alias yus='yum update --skip-broken' > It does. A clue then - it seems to be a matter of paths. The command is in my user bashrc, and it always worked from a root console before. What do you think? Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20091224/64f0b166/attachment.bin
