Art Vandalay wrote: > If I use the stock 'su' that ships with Solaris 9, doing the command "su -" > behaves as per normal. > ... > Okay, no problem there. Looks normal. However, if I grab any version of > coreutils and recompile 'su' and use the newly compiled 'su', when I do "su > -" with this new 'su', it doesn't seem to get any of root's profile stuff > sourced properly. The thing I'm most concerned with is $PATH being > incorrect.
The GNU su is host specific enough that there has been discussion of removing it from coreutils and moving it into a hostutils package. Because this is so host specific, on legacy unix hosts it does not usually get used. Therefore there is less testing of it there. Personally I do not include it on an HP-UX port that I maintain. > If anyone has ideas on *anything* i can try, that would be most > appreciated. What I do and what I recommend is that you avoid these listed utilities on your platform and use the native ones on your platform. false hostname logname pinky sync true uptime users who > I realize the version of 'su' on Solaris 9 is far older than 5.2.1, but did > Sun modify 'su', or is their weird interaction with 'su' on Solaris 9 that > i'm not aware of? Because the GNU su is a completely different code base from the Solaris su the concept of older or newer really does not apply directly to it. They are not related. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
