Re: su -c now fatal on Mac? was Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed 0.9.1 Release

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Donnerstag, 7. April 2011, 19:59:53 schrieb Sebastian Hilbert:

> Am Donnerstag, 7. April 2011, 16:57:05 schrieb Jim Busser:

> > On 2011-04-07, at 2:20 AM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:

> > > Please provide the output of

> > >

> > > su --help

> >

> > the above yields

> >

> > bash-3.2$ su --help

> > su: illegal option -- h

> > usage: su [-] [-flm] [login [args]]

> >

> > There is also the following link which strangely suggests

> >

> > su -c

>

> Please try

>

> man su

>

> then.

>

> 'su --help' works on Linux.

>

> We need to find out if your su accepts an argument to run a command.

>

> It might be different from '-c'

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/su.1.html

nicely illustrates that there is no '-c' for your su.

su [-] [-flm] [login [args]]

so the args argument could be used to run the command

Sebastian