From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 7 01:26:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA23723 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 01:26:16 -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 BAA23709 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 01:26:08 -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 KAA11345; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:21:16 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA02689; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:21:15 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA13826; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:13:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610070813.KAA13826@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: su problem To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:13:42 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610062136.OAA00365@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Oct 6, 96 02:36:27 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 Amancio Hasty wrote: > The problem is easy . I just ran the debugger in rc.local and debugged > su . > > What it show is that su does: > p = getenv("TERM"); > cleanenv[0] = NULL; > environ = cleanenv; > (void)setenv("PATH", _PATH_DEFPATH, 1); > (void)setenv("TERM", p, 1); > ^^^ p is NULL > because TERM is not defined Thanks, now the picture is much clearer! -- 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. ;-)