Re: Problem with su -

On 2012/03/06 01:58, Bob Goodwin wrote:
On 06/03/12 01:09, Ed Greshko wrote:
I wonder if it is even being sourced, based on the manner
of other problems you've been reporting as of late.

The other recent problems you refer to have been common to both
computers, this one is a difference between them ... But they
are different computers. Box9 has three drives, Box6 only one
connected, etc. But I doubt those differences are the problem.

He'll have to trace it out. Normally "su" runs "/root/.bashrc" followed
by "/etc/bashrc". This strongly suggests his /root/.bashrc file has been
corrupted or his /etc/bashrc has some exotic lack of privileges. (Being
reckless with chmod can do strange things to a system.) It also means he
will not have the path setup, among other things, that he expects.

Normally "su -l" runs "/etc/profile" followed by "/root/.bash_profile"
followed by "/root/.bashrc" and lastly "/etc/bashrc". I suspect he will
see the same defect if he uses "su -" to get a login shell. It would be
worth the experiment.

Then he needs to look at the ROOT account's .bashrc file to see what has
changed. It should have this in it:

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi

If it doesn't then that needs to get fixed.

{^_^}
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