From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 7 01:22:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA23398 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 01:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA23387 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 01:22:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA11375; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:21:28 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA02703; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:21:28 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA13813; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:12:35 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610070812.KAA13813@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: su problem To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:12:35 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Robert Eckardt) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610062115.XAA01101@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> from Robert Eckardt at "Oct 6, 96 11:15:15 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Robert Eckardt wrote: > > su -l hasty -c "" > > It would be nice if this would work. It works. > I was searching for that feature since the time I changed > from SysVr3.2 to FreeBSD. (And it's not in the manpage.) It's in the man page to your shell. The -c is passed down to the shell... Btw., if you've got an older BSD where it doesn't work, simply use: echo "something" | su -l hasty That's the obvious solution... ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)