From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 07:08:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC33A16A4CF for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 07:08:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E605B43D2F for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 07:08:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyh@hhbb.co.uk) Received: from [10.0.0.25] (hedgie1.gotadsl.co.uk [82.133.95.107]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E00B7251C12 for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 15:06:50 +0100 (BST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Andy Holyer Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 15:06:52 +0100 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) Subject: Odd one: my root account disappears into hyperspace. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:08:27 -0000 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? --- Andy Holyer, Technical stuff Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough Place Brighton BN1 1UB 08451 260895 x 241