[YLUG] Bash History problem

[Liam Wilson]

--- Tom Hayward <nessieliberation at gmail.com> wrote:

> that, but maybe not exactly this problem, is why you
> shouldnt run graphical
> apps using sudo on ubuntu - gksudo (or kdsu?) is the
> equivalent, and doesnt
> set various strange files in ~/ as owned by root

It happens because (in Ubuntu) sudo doesn't change
$HOME to /root when you run something like sudo -s
(which is what I did whilst setting up the
laptop).sudo -H -s should set home to /root if you
need a root shell.

Liam


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