From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 13 8:22:22 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 628D337B79C; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 08:22:19 -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 LAA04672; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:22:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lon-qbu-gyt-vty52.as.wcom.net (lon-qbu-gyt-vty52.as.wcom.net [195.232.106.52]) by spdmraac.compuserve.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-REL-1.3) with ESMTP id LAA04654; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:22:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:24:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.net To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE and Exim In-Reply-To: <20000813135351.T48327@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> 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 On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > > Janko van Roosmalen wrote: > > > > > 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 > > And this has, what, precisely, to do with the problem at hand? > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D > FreeBSD Documentation Project / > Siegbert thought that the problem was not being root. I just wanted to point out that in that case he needed a "su -" instead of a "su". Janko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message