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[Clinton MacDonald]

Emmanuel:

On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 10:00  AM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:15:45AM -0500, Clinton C. MacDonald wrote:
>> Note the hyphen ("-") after the su command to enter root privileges. 
>> This is essential, though I have no idea how it changes "su."
>
> Adding the hyphen to the command will tell su that you want root's 
> environnement as well as his username. This will give you a $PATH 
> which contains /usr/sbin, the directory which contains service.

What an excellent and concise explanation. Thanks!

Best wishes,
Clint

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