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Date:      Wed, 26 May 2004 15:06:52 +0100
From:      Andy Holyer <andyh@hhbb.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Odd one: my root account disappears into hyperspace.
Message-ID:  <F040ABAB-AF1D-11D8-B217-000D93511A6A@hhbb.co.uk>

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Here's a really odd one.

I ssh into my server as myself, and then su to root. At which point 
something odd happens:

a) the output of some shell commands seems to be redirected somewhere 
other then my xterm;
b) when I try to run emacs or vi, I get: "emacs: standard input is not 
a tty"

This doesn't happen when I log in as another user and try it. I've 
tried comparing the contents of our two home directories, and there 
appears no difference.

Anyone seen this before?
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Andy Holyer, Technical stuff
Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough Place Brighton BN1 1UB
08451 260895 x 241



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