LILO boot floppy

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:33:26 PDT 2004


Also sprach Joel Hammer:
>
> Don't know the answer but:
> 
> RH 7.0 is a pain. If you su to root, the paths remain those of your
> regular user. Maybe there is some similar nuisance operating here. Try
> logging on as root. (Hey, this is computers, not logic.) 

"su" keeps the existing environment; "su -" gets you root's environment.
Or it should.

Kurt
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