local alias not respected

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 25 December 2009 13:05:49 Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> On 12/25/2009 07:35 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> >> 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.

Anne
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