From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 5 11:51:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inbox.org (inbox.org [216.22.145.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CDB515256 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:51:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsd@inbox.org) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by inbox.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA19039; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:50:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:50:50 -0500 (EST) From: "Mr. K." To: Oliver Fromme Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question In-Reply-To: <200001051806.TAA36854@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > For the above reasons (and because of "good practice"), I never > change root's login shell. Instead, I use ``su -m'' (as a > normal user) to become root, which causes my root shell to be > the same as my normal user shell (which happens to be zsh). > In fact, my ``su'' is an alias for ``su -m''. > I just tried the su -m thing, and the strangest thing happened when I typed "pine", I got all my user messages, plus all the root messages combined. Is there any way to avoid this, or should I make sure I only check mail when doing a normal su? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message