On Thursday 24 December 2009 04:25:46 Anne Wilson wrote: > 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? So how did you get to the root console ? 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. AC
