Can't su anymore

[José Pedro do Amaral]

Em 27/02/2008, às 09:49, Philip Mötteli escreveu:

>
> Am 27.02.2008 um 16:35 schrieb John Musbach:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Philip Mötteli
>> <Philip.Moetteli at tele2.ch> wrote:
>>> It works!
>>> But why? I mean, 'which' gives exactly the same file.
>>
>> Can you paste the output of "echo $PATH" please?
>
> $ echo $PATH
> /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/moetteli:/usr/ 
> local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/Users/moetteli/bin:/usr/X/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

Hi,
Those pesky /sw/bin and /sw/sbin take precedence, and I guess that the  
non-system su is in one of them...

You may edit your shell configuration file and add an alias for su to / 
usr/bin/su. That will fix it without thinking too much about Fink or  
your PATH.

ZP
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José Pedro Sousa do Amaral

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