Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 07:58:43 -0700 (PDT) From: backyard <backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com> To: Huy Ton That <huyslogic@gmail.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing Default Editor in profile Message-ID: <20060908145843.36578.qmail@web83108.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1cac28080609080749q4fe4d31agc51d5206b0340f5c@mail.gmail.com>
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--- Huy Ton That <huyslogic@gmail.com> wrote: > under my home directory for root under .profile I > added the line: > > EDITOR=pico; export EDITOR > > where no such line existed for EDITOR before; this > line exists in my > personal account that I use and my default for > external launched editors is > now pico such that I can edit crontab stuff easily. > However, when I ssh in > and then su, I try to run crontab only to find it is > still booting into 'vi' > by default. Any ideas how I can get this loaded? > _______________________________________________ > 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" > yeah, I'm not sure what the switch is for su I think its -w check man, but you have to load your profile for root which is a switch to su. by default it uses the profile of the user running su. the switch loads the profile for the user your su'ing to. -brian
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