From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 5 16:45:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C74DE15092 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 16:45:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12612b-000LFt-00; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 00:44:37 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA62708; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 00:44:37 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 00:44:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Oliver Fromme Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: window manager question In-Reply-To: <200001052203.XAA37242@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 On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote: >When you use ``su -m'', the environment variables are not >modified (see the su(1) manpage), including $USER, $LOGNAME, >$HOME, $MAIL... I guess this has confused your mail client. Here's one problem i have with this: i have several aliases for root only to mount filesystems and do a few other things. Is there a way to pick these up when i su to root? -=> jm <=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message