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Re: "mplayer -vo xvidix" problems with sudo



On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:43:49AM -0400, Oleg wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 01 June 2002 12:04 am, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Could it be the difference in $PATH between the 2 commands?
> 
> What do you mean? There's only one executable 'mplayer' and only one 'sudo'.

He means that sudo sets a hard-coded $PATH (defined at compile time) and su
sets a potentially different one derived from any of several places.

-- 
Marc Wilson
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