Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:51:30 +0200 From: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@interbizz.se> To: khetan@iafrica.com, khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za Cc: kaj@interbizz.se Subject: Re: su problem with freebsd 2.2.7-stable Message-ID: <19980813215130D.kaj@interbizz.se> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:43:20 %2B0200 (SAT)" <Pine.BSF.3.96.980813204057.19868A-100000@chain> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980813204057.19868A-100000@chain>
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>>>>> "KG" == Khetan Gajjar <khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za> writes: KG> Every time I run su (and I have normally never had a problem), KG> the process just starts to grow, and around roughly 10Mb's of KG> resident memory, seg faults. I've rebuilt su from the source KG> tree, but it appears that the command is fine. A guess: This sounds to me like you have something that creates a new shell in the shell startup files in /root (or whereever the account you su to lives), and thus run an infinite recurse. // Rasmus -- kaj@cityonline.se --------------- Rasmus Kaj - http://www.e.kth.se/~kaj/ \ CityOnLine IB Production AB - http://www.CityOnLine.se/ \---------------------------- Pro is to con as progress is to Congress To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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