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Re: how to change the order of directories PATH is searched?



On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 02:22:56PM -0500, Ron Flory wrote:
> Chris Baker wrote:
> > "john smith" <inquirer23@hotmail.com> writes:
> > The sbin directories are usually not added to the path of a non-root
> > user.  I'm guessing that you used su to become root, which doesn't
> > change your enviornment (e.g. your path) by default. 
> 
>  use: su -

Check the manpage to be sure. At one point not too long ago it was
'su -l'. Which meant i had to go change all my aliases when that decided
to change itself.


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