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Date:      Thu, 27 May 2004 01:14:28 -0400
From:      "Thomas Farrell" <info@mvcg.net>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Andy Holyer" <andyh@hhbb.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: Odd one: my root account disappears into hyperspace.
Message-ID:  <00f301c443a9$7c7f2d60$0b0a0a0a@neonduron>
References:  <F040ABAB-AF1D-11D8-B217-000D93511A6A@hhbb.co.uk>

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try man su
I think a modifier to like -l    "L" would make difference.
"L"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Holyer" <andyh@hhbb.co.uk>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:06 AM
Subject: Odd one: my root account disappears into hyperspace.


> 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
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