>>>>> "Idris" == Idris S Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    > [...]
    > it. Here is some more strange behavior:

    > If I'm in root and do texexec, everything works fine.  If I'm in
    > my user account and do texexec, everything works fine.

    > If I su to my home directory from root (or su to root from my
    > home dir), then texexec gives the error

    >> texexec
    > `texexec.pl' not found.

If you login with "su", the path defined in /etc/profile is not used.

"su" uses the path defined in /etc/login.defs.  Look at the variable
ENV_SUPATH.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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