Re: question about fdisk

I've notice that when you execute some commands on some distros, you're
actually executing a script that executes your command - with certain
switches pre-set that the distro developers thought were prudent.
I first ran across this with "rm" on RH6.1/6.2. rm wouldn't remove
certain types of files unless forced.

Joshua Kugler wrote:
> On Thursday 13 October 2005 14:49, Jon Reynolds wrote:
>
>>captgoodnight captgoodnight wrote:
>>
>>>man su
>>>
>>>and
>>>
>>>Try logging in as root.
>>>
>>>
>>>bests,
>>>eddie
>>
>>A little gem from JimG, it would be 'su -'. The '-' says to use roots path.
>
>
> Hmm...then Mandrake and CentOS must modify how they execute su, because when I
> do a straight su (not 'su -'), I get the sbin's in my path.
>
> j----- k-----
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