Classpaths don't work with sudo -s

ScSpruijt · 04-24-2007, 03:20 PM

Hello all,

I have a slight problem with classpaths. The problem is that they won't work when I'm working as root with "sudo -s". This gives me the same rights as root but somehow the classpaths don't transfer with it. Any idea on how to fix this? I'd hate to really log in as root everytime a classpath doesn't work.

Thanks

trickykid · 04-24-2007, 04:12 PM

sudo su -

That should give you the full path and environment that root has. And what do you mean, login as root? Using sudo -s is logging in as root, it's just not giving you want you want.

syg00 · 04-24-2007, 05:34 PM

Try sudo -i

Matir · 04-24-2007, 06:00 PM

I think the OP has some environment variables (CLASSPATH) set in his shell and then attempts to execute something (a java app) that requires that. The only problem being that the shell (from -s) probably adjusts the environment somewhat.

On my system, the following works fine:

Code:

CLASSPATH="xxx" sudo -s
echo $CLASSPATH

I still get xxx as output.

The following might work, though:

Code:

CLASSPATH="xxx" sudo bash -c 'echo $CLASSPATH'