[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: SuSE 9 or 9.1 PATH environment changes after su

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 14:06, Ralph Green, Jr wrote:
> Mr Smith,
>   I made no such assertion.  In a private email from you, I would have
> just ignored such a silly statement,  On  public list, please don't
> ascribe statements to me that I have not made.

No offense, but _you_ started it _on-list_ with:  
  "Howdy,
     Another list member has told me off-list"

I kept it 100% off-list, but you then decided to "throw stones at a
glass house."  ;->

I will not post what you said off-list other than you _regularly_ used
the _exact_phrases_ of "second rate" and "broken" with regards to Red
Hat choices and implementations.  *PLEASE* _go_re-read_ your
statements.  I offered to help you off-list and all it did was turn into
a 100% ignorance-based Red Hat bashing session.

Again, I was willing to "let it go" off-list, but you wouldn't on-list.
You're now trying to "backtrack" on little, picky details but your
_agenda_ was clear.  You feel some "need" to prove to yourself
(certainly not me) that Red Hat is, again your words, "broken" so you
can't use it.

If you don't prefer Red Hat, you'll receive _no_grief_ from me.  But why
o why do people like yourself feel the need to "bash" Red Hat because
you don't use it?  Why?

E.g., I'm pretty active with the LPI certification program (I was one of
5 people who were the official SME for the new LPIC-1 exams), and quite
often I see an "anti-RHCE" comment.  Not only am *I* a RHCE as well as
one of the few LPIC-2s in the US (LPI is very popular outside the US),
but Lara Prichard who basically co-founded LPI is also a RHCE (and wrote
RHCE study guides).

> SuSE does not have such an alias.  I knew that from the start.  The
> PATH environment does change when doing a su without the -.  I have not
> researched why, but I never said it was an alias or that RedHat was
> broken for its lack of such a thing.  That was your supposition, not
> mine.

And that's why SuSE is _different_ whether your use "su" or "su -".


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Bryan J. Smith                                  b.j.smith at ieee.org 
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