[svlug] Paths broken as root

[Ray Olszewski]

Try "man su". The man page for su on my system (Slackware 3.4) says that the
environment doesn't get created in the way you are assuming. To get a
"normal" environment after an su switch, it says to do the command as

su -

Read your man page for additional details.

At 12:59 AM 11/23/98 +0000, aaronl at vitelus.com wrote:
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>This works fine as a normal user, but not as root. This is ilustrated in
>the example below, where I try to run wget, which resides in
>/usr/local/bin, before and after a su:
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