Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 22:34:58 -0800 From: Will Yardley <william@hq.newdream.net> To: tony <tony@tntpro.com> Cc: Robert Myers <ccrider@whiterose.net>, 'jason' <jhunt@blaz.homeip.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: su su Message-ID: <3A5C0292.254713AA@hq.newdream.net> References: <000601c07ab8$27136ed0$0201a8c0@ccrider2k> <008d01c07abb$53bf68a0$0a00a8c0@tntpro.com>
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that's pretty much what i was going to say (although i was having a hard time trying to explain it... also... i wouldn't copy your .bashrc or .bash_profile over root's since there's usually some stuff about root's $PATH variable and other important rootly stuff in there. also su - opens up a shell with root's environment variables and su (without the -) opens it up with yours (i am pretty sure) so you could copy (or source) your .bash_profile in your .bashrc i use sudo most of the time and just open up a root shell like that (ie sudo bash) then it will source your .bashrc -w > > > > OK. Bash only sources (executes) the .profile when called from login. > > > > When you are su'ing you are not invoking bash from the login, but > > interactively. > > When you invoke bash after you are logged in, i.e. from screen or su, bash > > looks at > > .bashrc > > > > What I usually do, is something like this: > > > > in ~/.bash_profile: > > > > source ~/.bashrc > > > > then put all of my PS1 and 2 nonsense in my .bashrc along with all of the > > other noise > > that is associated with that. :) > > > > Hope that helps. > > > > Robert Myers > > Systems Administrator > > White Rose Internet Service > > http://whiterose.net > > (717)439-1478 > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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