[GLLUG] Network UPS Tools

Chris Bell chrisbell at chrisbell.org.uk
Mon Jun 17 20:06:31 UTC 2019


On Monday, 17 June 2019 19:55:47 BST Andy Smith via GLLUG wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 06:29:47PM +0100, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote:
> > On Monday, 17 June 2019 18:19:48 BST Martin A. Brooks via GLLUG wrote:
> > > "su -" will get you a root prompt with a useful path.
> > 
> > Tried, and that does work. Never needed to do that before.
> 
> Debian recently changed implementation of "su", and this is one of
> the differences in behaviour:
> 
>    
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/460478/debian-su-and-su-path-diffe
> rences
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
Thanks, that explains why I had not seen the problem before, although the man 
page from a box running stretch does list it as an option.

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