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 -- 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/20091228/8783a59d/attachment.bin
