Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Thomas Pegg wrote: >> since su'ing to root even from the lfs user the path does not carry >> over, /tools/bin is lost. > > It will carry over unless your shell login scripts explicitly reset it.
Umm, not necessarily. It depends if the `su' comes from Coreutils or Shadow, as I once found out the hard way. The Shadow supplied `su' explicitly twiddles with PATH. Look at src/su.c for proof. More background here: http://www.diy-linux.org/pipermail/diy-linux-dev/2005-August/000610.html Sidenote: next Coreutils release will no longer install install `su' by default. Regards Greg -- http://www.diy-linux.org/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
