local alias not respected

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 25 December 2009 16:54:59 Armelius Cameron wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Sorry if I wasn't being very clear (I was in a hurry) :). 
> 
> As Patrick explained, and far as I know, it has always been the case that 
> "su -" will read root's shell environment and overwrite any user shell 
> environment including alias and env. variables.
> 
> Is there any possibility that you had that alias in root's .bashrc before
>  the  upgrade and simply forgot about that ? Or, it could be that command
>  for the root profile was "/bin/su" before ?
> 
> In any case, it seems that you got it to work.
> 
I did, and I appreciate the time some of you have given to try to solve this 
mystery for me - it's just that I *hate* mysteries :-)  As for existing 
aliases, I always have an alias for root's mail, but I can't think of anything 
else more likely to affect this.

As you say, it's working, so no big deal.  Just something that will nag away 
in the back of my mind :-)

Anne
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