[bu-users] bu installed as user, running as root..

[jack b. <by...@gm...>]

I am experiencing strange bu results,
most likely bc of  how I am running bu.
Installed as user byers
[byers@bootp ~]$ echo $PATH
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/byers/pkg/bin:/home/byers/bin:/home/byers/pkg/bin

running bu as root, but root via (su)   not via (su -)
bc I didnt change root's path
In the past I thot I had run su as root exactly this way without problems
And I haven't changed bu config  as far as I can recall.

Now in /rh8   which contains lib, var ... from an old kubuntu
test backing up     lib     to an external usb disk
su
# bu -d /media/disk-1/bukubuinst lib

copies a link, but not the accompanying file in this same lib dir

eg
]# cd /rh8

[root@bootp rh8]# cd lib
[root@bootp lib]# pwd
/rh8/lib
[root@bootp lib]# ls -l *kid*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    15 Dec 27  2006 libblkid.so.1 -> libblkid.so.1.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27656 May 12  2006 libblkid.so.1.0

both a link file and the file itself are seen


the result on usb disk:
root@bootp lib]# pwd
/media/disk-1/bukubuinst/rh8/lib
[root@bootp lib]# ls -l *kid*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 24 09:04 libblkid.so.1 -> libblkid.so.1.0
[root@bootp lib]#
 only the link

and this is same for many other links,files inside /rh8/lib

advice?  am I just doing something plain wrong
by not having the  bu /pkg in root's path?


Jack