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#49116 ·published 2006-04-12 02:43 UTC
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	<Evil_Glappy>	but can someone tell me WHY, for the love of Linus, /sbin isn't in root's path>
	<Evil_Glappy>	what the fuck is that shit
	<Gruuk>	Erm... it is
	<Gruuk>	did you log into root via su or su - ?
	<tangent>	actually, i often have to type /sbin/runme
	<tangent>	i don't think i've had to since dropping rpm based distros
	<Evil_Glappy>	su
	<Gruuk>	that's your problem
	<tangent>	wrong window, Evil_Glappy 
	<Evil_Glappy>	no, that's what i did tangent
	<Gruuk>	you have to use su -
	<Evil_Glappy>	lemme guess
	<Evil_Glappy>	something else I already should have known
	<Evil_Glappy>	because god forbid ANYTHING is documented EVER
	<tangent>	documentation?
	<funjon>	its documented in the man page
	<tangent>	what's documentation?
	<tangent>	:P
	<tangent>	manpages?
	<funjon>	su - gives you a login shell
	<Gruuk>	First line in the man page, actually
	<funjon>	su uses existing environment, just changes user
	<funjon>	yep
	<tangent>	i won't want no steeenking manpages... i want womanpages!
	<tangent>	ooh... alias
	<TechTygr>	su changes your effective UID, but not pathing
	<TechTygr>	su - logs you in as that user, pathing included
	<funjon>	tangent: so when you get here, will you be staying in the guest room, or just curled up between kimiko and i
	<Evil_Glappy>	gruuk: first line in WHAT fuckin man page
	<Gruuk>	man su
	<TechTygr>	techmav@carter ~ >  man woman
	<TechTygr>	No manual entry for woman
	<Gruuk>	First line of the description, that is
	<Evil_Glappy>	-, -l, --login
	<Evil_Glappy>	              make the shell