From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 13 4:41:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spdmraac.compuserve.com (ds-img-rel-3.compuserve.com [149.174.206.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B34F37B52A for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 04:41:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from janko@compuserve.com) Received: (from mailgate@localhost) by spdmraac.compuserve.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-REL-1.3) id HAA09744 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 07:41:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lon-qbu-gyt-vty106.as.wcom.net (lon-qbu-gyt-vty106.as.wcom.net [195.232.106.106]) by spdmraac.compuserve.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-REL-1.3) with ESMTP id HAA09736; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 07:41:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:43:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.net To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE and Exim In-Reply-To: <20000813131210.B15093@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There is a difference between "su" and "su -". If you execute "su" you do not get roots environment, a "su -" will do this. Try the following command sequence and you will see the difference: echo $PATH su echo $PATH exit su - echo $PATH On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > alouette: /usr/home/admin (8) % su = To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message