On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Look at some of the environment variables that are set when root logs in. > Look especially at $SHELL and $PATH. Type "alias" and see if any well-known > programs are aliased. These would be set by files like /root/.profile . You were right. Ron Murray helped and noted that the paths of root and su_root consisted of the same directories but were in a different order. One of the _directories_ was in fact a file - I had copied a script to usr/local/sbin when there was no such directory. This does show up different behaviour of libc5_5.4 which returns an error when it finds a bad directory, whereas 5.2 would carry on. I'll leave it to the experts as to whether or not this is a Good Thing. Lindsay -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
