You're right Deigo, I have not changed my root shell, it's still bash. As a workaround I'm manually starting a root shell with fish (sudo fish) which makes the alias available.
I agree with you, fish is not yet ready for prime-time :) On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Diego Zamboni <di...@zzamboni.org> wrote: > Mandeep, > > Have you also changed root’s shell to fish? Otherwise it will not read that > config file. > > If I may make a side comment, I wouldn’t recommend using fish as root’s > shell. As much as I like fish, its code is not nearly as mature as bash or > sh, so there’s a higher likelihood of bugs, which under root could have bad > consequences. Also, I always prefer to make root’s environment as > uncomfortable as possible, so that I’m not tempted to spend in it any time > beyond the strictly necessary :) > > —Diego > > >> On Mar 5, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Pardon my noob-ish question. >> >> I'm trying to add an alias which I can use running as myself or as >> root (via sudo). >> >> I've added the alias in /etc/fish/config.fish. It works from me (as >> user), but doesn't when run under sudo. >> >> How do I make the alias work under sudo? >> >> Thanks, >> -mandeep >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, >> sponsored >> by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for >> all >> things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to >> news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the >> conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Fish-users mailing list >> Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
