Bevan C. Bennett said: > su works because you end up with root's environment variables (and > path), thus avoiding consolehelper entirely. No you don't: [whooper@kenny whooper]$ su -c printenv | grep PATH Password: JAVA_PATH=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_02 PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_02/bin:/home/whooper/bin [whooper@kenny whooper]$ sudo printenv | grep PATH JAVA_PATH=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_02 PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_02/bin:/home/whooper/bin [whooper@kenny whooper]$ su -c "which up2date" Password: /usr/bin/up2date [whooper@kenny whooper]$ sudo which up2date /usr/bin/up2date [whooper@kenny whooper]$ I assume they use xauth differently and that is why one works and the other doesn't. -- William Hooper
