Re: su and ifconfig, shutdown

[Robert E. Martin]

Robert Tinsley wrote:

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 14:34, Robert E. Martin wrote:

Well...here we go again with the dumb questions......
I am tring to create an alias for the command ifconfig,

alias ifconfig=/sbin/ifconfig

when I leave root user and go back to root, the alias I created is gone.
Help!!

this shouldn't be necessary for root on a stock red hat box, provided
you "su -" rather than just "su". could you try that and see whether it
works for you?

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Robert E Martin
IT Manager
Fishburne Military School
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hth,

Yes this does work. Why is this different from the older versions of bash? Is this a new alias in the shell itself? security?

Thanks for the never ending supply of Linux tips and tricks!

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Robert E Martin
IT Manager
Fishburne Military School
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
540.946.7726




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