On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 00:07:21 -0600 Todd Young <auditodd at comcast.net> wrote: > Uhm, my experience has always been to simply type "su" and then the > root password at the password query. I've never typed "su root". I > would assume that for most systems, "su" indicates root, as it's > short for "super user" which is equivalent to root as far as I know. > I always use the "-" whenever I su. I want the $PATH loaded for root. I'm a lazy SOB and don't want to type in the fully qualified path of each command. Let alone, hardly remembering the directories in which those commands exist. Bear in mind that not all distributions load root's $PATH with the switch of "su -" as a default. One of which is Debian. If you want it, you need to configure it yourself. I'm not positive about RH, but I believe that it load the $PATH for root. As to the comment about an su'ed environment and losing stuff setup that way, Nate covered it very well. -- Shawn "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear." -Mark Twain Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list