Once upon a time, Bee.Lists bee.lists@gmail.com said:
No, this isn’t a case of multi partitions, clusters, or anything silly. I just want a set of aliases loaded for su. /root/.bash_profile isn’t loading, and there isn’t any obvious choice as to where the loaded .bash* were loading from.
.bash_profile will not be read when you just run "su", because .bash_profile is read in a login shell, and "su" does not create a login shell.
.bashrc will be read (and is really where aliases belong anyway), or you can "su -" to create a login shell.