Hello Anne, On Friday 25 December 2009, 10:25, Anne Wilson wrote: > > >> 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. I think the explanation here is that when you switch to su with the command su - the env. vars. from /root/.bashrc are read, not the ones from your /home/<anne>/.bashrc So the solution is that you, as root, edit /root/.bashrc and place the alias there. Me, for example, I like yum messages in English, not in Spanish (my sys. default locale), so I edited /root/.bashrc and added export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and every time Konsole loads the profile, the locale is changed automatically. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
