At 11:06 AM -0500 7/15/05, Mike McCarty wrote: >Paul Howarth wrote: > >> Mike McCarty wrote: ... [su] >>> What am I missing? >> >> >> You're missing getting /sbin and /usr/sbin on your PATH, which you >> probably want for what you're about to do as root. If you already have >> those directories on your regular user's PATH (which is not the >> default), "su -" probably doesn't help you much. But it does for most >> people. >> >> Paul. >> >Hmm. So I give up my regular editor in return for not having to type /sbin/ "gedit &" works for me, whether I'm root or not. I expect that something similar would work for you. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>