changing grub

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Sat, 4/4/09, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:

> From: Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net>
> Subject: Re: changing grub
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009, 2:32 PM
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> >
> > --- On Sat, 4/4/09, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net>
> wrote:
> >
Big Snip
         
> >>> I think the difference "strangeness"
> >>>       
> >> probably stems from the different
> >>     
> >>> "environment" one can be in when
> they start
> >>>       
> >> a terminal with gksu than when
> >>     
> >>> one starts a program as sudo. I agree with you
> >>>       
> >> Leonard, that sudo nano,
> >>     
> >>> along with the proper path to the file you
> want to
> >>>       
> >> edit will work as
> >>     
> >>> expected. Some things appear to not work as
> expected,
> >>>       
> >> generally because
> >>     
> >>> our expectations are faulty, the $PATH
> environment
> >>>       
> >> variable differences
> >>     
> >>> between regular user and root user is one that
> often
> >>>       
> >> is a source of
> >>     
> >>> confusion.
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm *not* starting Terminal with gksu, I'm
> starting
> >> gedit *from* 
> >> Terminal with gksu. Again, nano is not a GUI
> application.
> >>
> >> Later, Ray Parrish
> >>
> >>     
> > I didn't imply or suggest you were starting a
> terminal program with gksu.
> >
> > Leonard Chatagnier
> > lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> >   
> Didn't say you did, I was replying to Thorny there, in
> his preferred 
> threading reply mode, which upon reflection does make more
> sense than I 
> had previously been allowing it. He's the one that
> mentioned starting 
> Terminal with gksu. 8-)
> 
> Later, Ray Parrish
> 
Ok, that explains it, I think.  My mistake.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net