Ned Slider wrote: > Any suggestions as to where might be an appropriate home for this on the > Wiki? I think TipsAndTricks is appropriate for that, maybe under "Admin Tricks and shell one-liners"? I don't see it under "HowTo" ... > su > > or > > su - > > but the above are NOT the same thing. ... but the two commands above behave differently. > When you become root by using 'su -', you also adopt root's PATH whereas > using just 'su' retains the original users PATH, hence why becoming root > using just 'su' and trying to run a command located in /usr/local/sbin, > /usr/sbin, or /sbin results in a 'command not found' error. Please mention the bash manual page (and the section about login shells), where this behaviour is explained in more detail. Otherwise: Go ahead. Cheers, Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20080407/c02f5adf/attachment.bin
