On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 20:59 -0400, wrote: >> No you don't, just "su -" instead of "su", and you'll get the root >> environment. Bruce Hyatt: > Wow, THAT's going to save me a lot of time. Thanks. > > I wonder why, during 6 or 7 years of messing with Linux, I never came > across that before. I can guess at a couple of reasons: You used a distro that had /usr/sbin and /sbin already in the path. You'd used commands that were already in the path, if not in the above ones. -- (This PC runs FC4, my others FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.