Problem with su -

[jdow]

On 2012/03/06 07:55, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 03/06/2012 11:44 PM, jdow wrote:
>> Not all - there is a strong hint everything in the /root directory was
>> removed. The fix may be as simple as the copy he performed. If the
>> systems
>> differ in any material ways, different things installed, he may have some
>> lingering problems with missing files in /root. I think these days the
>> missing files will tend to get recreated. So it might not be as bad as
>> what
>> I faced in the late 90s from a corrupted /root directory in Hurricane. I
>> eventually solved it by reinstalling after incremental upgrades for a few
>> releases. Finally one didn't work and the reinstall made everything
>> happy.
>
> Well, things have changed since the 90's.   There is nothing in /root
> other than anaconda-ks.cfg, install.log, and install.log.syslog on all
> of my systems plus a few other . files.  Nothing of any importance that
> would cause things to fail.

I tend to put quick hints for myself in there. It's grown rather dramatically
large over time.

If you ever use ssh, ftp, or other utilities from root they put data there.
If you receive log messages as root there may be some stuff in /root directory
as well. (Some system emails seem to default to root, even today. I put in
necessary redirections to the account that should see them - usually in the
various /etc configuration files.)

{^_^}