* Arnold Krille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-29 00:32]:
> PS: I am not using sudo. perhaps I should but there is only me at the
> pc doing administrative tasks and root needs the
> standard-environment-variables not the ones of a user...

This is what I do to overcome that problem:

sudo /bin/su - -c "command"

The quotes are necessary to protect spaces if you're passing arguments
to a command, e.g.:

sudo /bin/su - -c "/bin/rm -f FOO".

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