From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 5 21:52:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99B6F154A5 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:52:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA61982; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 06:52:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 06:52:44 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001060552.GAA61982@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <8518o8$2f8a$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon McKitrick wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > So you mean i should put *all* of my aliases in one of those > files? What's happening now is when i su -m toor i lose all but two > aliases.. which-command=whence and run-help=man. All of my personal > aliases disappear. SO do these aliases belong in the toor config files or > my user config files? In your user config files. ``su -m'' does not change any environment variables, so $HOME still points to your user home, thus the su'ed zsh will pick up its start-up scripts from there. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message