From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Nov 14 6:15:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3968937B407 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 06:15:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [207.200.51.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03DBA43E6E for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 06:15:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAEEFcc17524; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:15:38 -0600 (CST) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gAEEFcF11213; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:15:38 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (electron [204.177.173.173]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAEEFZX11198; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:15:35 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3DD3B007.9010201@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:15:35 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johan Hendriks Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: su References: <1037280915.1183.27.camel@Larissa.double-l.lokaal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Johan Hendriks wrote: > (i am completely new to BSD, so be gentle) > > I have a lttle question regarding the handbook > In paragraph 3.6 Daemons, Signals, and Killing Processes you tell me to > use su to become root. > I come from Linux and under Linux you never must do a su without the - > Is this the same under FreeBSD or is it a little typo, or something > else. The "-" signifies that you want to run the login shell - to simulate a full login. It's the same as using -l. This isn't a typo. Hope that helps. Thanks for the comments.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Beware the fury of a patient man. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message