Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cuuxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!mgnetp!ltuxa!cuuxb!crom From: crom@cuuxb.UUCP (Michael Crom) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.micro.att Subject: Re: $PATH in su mode under SV.2 Message-ID: <246@cuuxb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 09:31:58 EDT Article-I.D.: cuuxb.246 Posted: Thu Aug 15 09:31:58 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 01:32:40 EDT References: <1246@sjuvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Technologies CSD, Lisle, Il. Lines: 23 Xref: watmath net.unix:5378 net.micro.att:458 One way to set the PATH variable is to create a /.profile. In it you would put something like this: PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/lbin:/whatever/wherever:: export PATH Then, instead of just using "su", use "su -". The minus sign says to invoke the that users .profile (which will set the PATH in this case). Unfortunately, it also puts you in roots home directory -- / If you had source for su, you could change change a define to whatever you wanted: #define SUPATH "PATH=whatever" But most 3b2 users don't have source, so you're stuck with the first method. Mike Crom Lisle, Il