Typically sudo will ignore any aliased commands from your .bashrc, .bash_aliases, or the alias command. For example, I use "ll" as an alias for "ls -lh". Typing "ll" will give me a long-listing of a directory's contents, while typing "sudo ll" will give me: sudo: ll: command not found I learned this when I tried to create an alias for "shutdown" that would refuse to shutdown if rtorrent was runnin