local alias not respected

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On 12/25/2009 07:35 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
<snip>
>
>> 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 -


>
> I've defined the alias in root's .bashrc, so now it works, but I'm still
> puzzled as to why it worked before the upgrade, without that.
>
> Anne
>
>
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