From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 22:15:45 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 138FC16A4CE for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 22:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ssigc.net (dsl092-076-115.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.76.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17FE743D55 for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 22:15:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from info@mvcg.net) Received: from ssigc.net (localhost [10.10.10.13] (may be forged)) by ssigc.net (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4R5EOBq004135; Thu, 27 May 2004 01:14:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from NEON-DURON ([10.10.10.11]) by ssigc.net (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Thu, 27 May 2004 01:14:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00f301c443a9$7c7f2d60$0b0a0a0a@neonduron> From: "Thomas Farrell" To: , "Andy Holyer" References: Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 01:14:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Subject: Re: 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: Thu, 27 May 2004 05:15:45 -0000 try man su I think a modifier to like -l "L" would make difference. "L" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Holyer" To: 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 > Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough Place Brighton BN1 1UB > 08451 260895 x 241 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >