At 04:03 PM 8/25/00 , you wrote:
In a message dated 8/25/00 12:37:04 PM US Mountain Standard Time, steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:> Are the files owned by root? If so you'll need to do "su -" to become root> and > enter the admin password at the prompt. Okay, I have to ask -- why the "-" after "su"? I've always just typed "su" without the dash, and it works just fine. What's the difference?
"su -" loads all environment settings for root. Normally, /usr/sbin isn't in everyone's PATH environment, so just doing "su" won't necessarily give you direct access to executables you would want/need to run as root (without typing "/usr/sbin/<whatever>").
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