On 05/28/12 15:08, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> From [email protected] Mon May 28 14:10:55 2012 >> Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 13:05:45 -0600 >> From: Gary Aitken<[email protected]> >> To: Polytropon<[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk >> >> On 5/25/2012 4:01 PM, Polytropon wrote: >>> >>> I should have mentioned that I did the (successful) test >>> logging in as root (real console login). If you use "su -" >>> or "su root", the effect should be the same. You can always >>> check the success of your operation with the "ls -lo" command. >> >> Nope. That was the problem. I had logged in on the vty as normal user >> and done su root. Had to back all the way out and log in on the vty as >> root to make it work. > > I'm going to guess that you did 'su root', not 'su - root'. The two commands > are *NOT* identical. 'su root' does not run the root 'login' scripts; thus > environment variables (including path, user, logname etc.) are *not* set as > they are on root login -- this causes some 'am i root' tests to fail. OTOH, > 'su - root' should be equivalent to a root login in all respects.
Thank you. That explains a number of problems I've been having. doh. > NOTE; there will be issues if the 'working directory' of a parent process is > the directory you are trying to delete. knew about that part _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
