Hello Anne,
On Friday 25 December 2009, 10:25, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> If you get a user console, then do "su" to
get the root console, then
> >> it should work. If you do "su -", I don't think it'd work
as "su -"
> >> change the environment to use root's.
> >
> > You've lost me. Surely to do updates I *do* want to be root, in
root's
> > environment?
>
> environment as in environment variables. Check the differences from the
> output of the set command for instance when switching to root using
>
> su
>
> and
>
> su -
OK,I understand what you are saying, but it still doesn't explain why it
worked in F11, but not in F12. I'm trying to understand what has changed.
I think the explanation here is that when you switch to su with the command
su -
the env. vars. from /root/.bashrc are read, not the ones from your
/home/<anne>/.bashrc
So the solution is that you, as root, edit /root/.bashrc and place the alias
there.
Me, for example, I like yum messages in English, not in Spanish (my sys.
default locale), so I edited /root/.bashrc and added
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
and every time Konsole loads the profile, the locale is changed automatically.
Regards
--
Ariel Constenla-Haile
La Plata, Argentina