thanks, I didn't know about sudo su -
-John
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/27/2010 10:04 AM, John Hudak wrote:
> >
> > Pet peve: One issue that I have found quite annoying is that the
> > Debian/Ubuntu branches have their own structure of where to put
> > applications and utilities in the file structure. I came from a Bell
> > Labs/ATT/BDS UNIX background and have used Slackware extensively in the
> > past. For me, that was the 'standard' and routing around the guts of
> > Debian and finding out (and still learning) were system files,
> > application files etc are located has been a little frustrating.
>
> Most linux distros make some attempt to follow the LSB/FHS standards
> (basically some committee shuffling things around without quite enough
> thought to make 3rd party packages portable).
>
> > So was
> > the concept of sudo in Ubuntu (Why is there no easily identifiable root
> > state (e.g. root terminal)...At least Debian will launch a root terminal
> > ....So, I guess it just depends what one is accustom to......
>
> You can 'sudo su -' to get a root terminal if you want. That even works
> on a Mac, which they seem to want to emulate.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
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