Hi,
I am running Red Hat 7, kernel 2.4.9. I am using KDE. I believe I am using the bash shell. Recently I have set up a couple of extra environment variables in the /etc/profile file. They all seem to work fine except the one called LD_LIBRARY_PATH. When I login from the initial login screen and subsequently start a shell the variable is available in that environment. However, if from that shell I then type "su" and become root, the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable is not available in the new environment, but all the other environment variables appear to be. If I then logout completely and login as root from the initial screen and start a shell then again the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable is available there. Here is a snippet of the /etc/profile file:
Hi Roger, The answer is "su -". This will give you root's environment as well. Hope that helps. Regards, -- Greig McGill